On October 12, Arkansas TV sponsored a debate between the Democratic and Libertarian nominees for U.S. Senate. The debate lasted 54 minutes and can be watched at this link. The debaters were Democrat Hallie Soffner and Libertarian Jeff Wadlin. Republican nominee Tom Cotton did not attend.
Here is a news story about the debate.
This TIME Magazine article documents the steep decline in the number of gubernatorial and U.S. Senate debates this year.
According to this story, a PAC linked to the Republican Party has paid for mailers sent to Ohio voters in support of Greg Levy, the nominee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation for U.S. Senate.
Levy got on the ballot by using the independent candidate petition, which requires 5,000 signatures. By contrast, a petition for a new party would have required 57,678 signatures.
Because he used the independent procedure, Ohio law won’t let him have his party label on the ballot. The law says he is free to have no label, “other-party candidate”, or “no-party candidate.” He chose “other-party candidate.”
This story says that the Shasta County, California elections office accidentally forgot to put Redding City Clerk on the ballot. The story also says that the county government’s position is that, therefore, the incumbent is the automatic winner of the election.
This newspaper story covers the history of the No Labels Party of Kansas in considerable detail.
