On August 25, the Independent Party released the names of its nominees for U.S. Senator and U.S. House. Also the Blue Enigma Party released the name of its nominee for U.S. Senate. See this story, which also covers the Constitution Party’s failure to regain its spot on the ballot this year.
The Green Party is ballot-qualified in Delaware but has no nominees this year.
The Libertarian Party had already turned in the names of its nominees.
If a party has the support, then 600 does not seem all that bad. People are fed up with the two major parties and some would like to join another party. It seems odd that even this late the two major parties can still place people on the ballot.
As State Chairman of the INDEPENDENT PARTY of DELAWARE, I am happy to have Glenn Miller and Earl Lofland on our 2010 ticket as candidates for the US Senate and House of Repreresentatives, respectively.
While I was an early active member (ca. 2000) of the IPoD [abbreviated IPoD — not IPOD or iPOD ] I was not, stiictly speaking, a co-founder of the party, but am, however, the namer of the party. The name, “Citizens-owned Party” was originally proposed, but I explained to one of the co-founders in 1999 that it was highly unworkable as it was not integrally burned into the American pshyche and it would require 45 minutes of a 60-minute radio interview to explain rather than “hitting the ground running” on issues.(From a media standpoint, this was unacceptable.) Ergo, I counter-offered “Independent Party of Delaware”(years before APPLE came out with the iPOD) and “Delaware Independent Party” as possible names. The latter was subsequently rejected on the obvious basis of its acronym (DIP)– thus precluding derisive references to party members by our critics…
With respect to placing candidates on the ballot, I was recently informed by the Delaware Elections Commission that the the statutory (15 Del. C.) provisions for fill-in nominations applies equally to all parties until the September 1 deadline.
Accordingly, IPoD nominations are still available for various state and county offices.
Wolf von Baumgart
State Chairman,
IPoD
ipodosc@yahoo.com
Mr Wolf von Baumgart. Would your party allow – if state statutes also allow – members of the Constitution Party to run for public offices under the “Independent Party of Delaware” label – especially since the CP did not retain ballot position.
Afterall, the CPers are “independents,” are they not?
Until all 3rd parties of similar viewpoint start working together – instead of opposing one another over small difference of opinion – none of these parties are ever going to win.
Your response appreciated.
Nice Post! My Partner was just discussing John Coltrane vs. Django Reinhardt . This will be useful in the conversation.
Before the State of Delaware banned fusion tickets, the IPoD actually cross-nominated some Constitution Party and Libertarian Party candidates in the public interest.
It is interesting to note that the Libertarian candidated received 2-4 times the number of votes in our column than they did in the LP column.