On November 4, independent candidate Edward O’Neill, a retired Texas Instruments employee, was elected to the Rhode Island Senate from district 17. He is the first independent elected to the Rhode Island Senate since 1964. He defeated the President of the Rhode Island Senate, and the outcome was a complete surprise to most observers. See this newspaper story for more detail. Thanks to Mike Rollins for this news. The vote was 6,541 to 5,764.
Do you have updated numbers on the minimum number of petition signatures a new or minor party would needed to have its candidates on teh ballot in every US House race or its candidate on ballot in all States for a presidential election?
That will wait until we know more complete election returns, since in about half the states, the number of signatures depends on the number of votes cast. That chart will be in the Dec. 1 2008 printed Ballot Access News, along with a chart on the number of registered voters in each party in each state.
And in the ever shrinking world of the [so called] ‘reform movement’ the states of Kansas and Louisianna bumped Mississippi Reform Party aged loyalist Theodore Weill off of the official ballot. He was only listed [after a very questionable and deeply immoral manuerving at the DFW ‘national convention’] in that fine ethical democraphic of Mississippi.
What ever voice mail, email, and written complains that were received from me; I hope that they helped! I am only sorry that he was retained in Jackson [Mississippi].
Don Lake, ‘Reform Reform’