According to this story, Jon Green, organizer for the Connecticut Green Party for the last decade, will be leaving Connecticut and will work on getting Working Families Parties on the ballot in states that don’t now have such a party. … Continue reading
Two new election law bills in Arizona are: (1) SB 1429, which would abolish the presidential primary, but wouldn’t take effect until 2016; and (2) SB 1449, which would change the recall process to the system used in Wisconsin. The … Continue reading
The Independent Party is ballot-qualified in New Mexico. It polled over one-half of 1% of the presidential vote in New Mexico in 2008 for its nominee, Ralph Nader. Therefore, it remained ballot-qualified through the 2012 election. The Independent Party is … Continue reading
Sheri and Allen Rivlin have this article at Huffington Post, asking how many presidential candidates will be running in November 2012 outside of the two major parties. The article makes a good point when it criticizes the term “third party”, … Continue reading
On February 13, the Hamilton County, Ohio, Board of Elections, voted on whether to appeal the Hunter lawsuit to the U.S. Court of Appeals, 4th circuit. This is the somewhat famous lawsuit on whether or not certain provisional ballots should … Continue reading
