The Green Party of Canada does well in elections, but has never elected anyone to the Canadian Parliament. On September 19, the party nominated its national leader, Elizabeth May, to run in the next national election from the British Columbia … Continue reading
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Back on November 18, 2008, a federal jury in Scranton, Pennsylvania, had awarded Denise Carey $67,000 in her lawsuit against her home city of Wilkes-Barre. Carey in 2004 had headed up a local initiative petition. After her petition had been … Continue reading
On September 16, the Libertarian Party of Maine lost its federal lawsuit against Maine’s system of having one deadline to submit independent candidate petitions to town clerks, and a separate deadline, one week later, to get the signatures from the … Continue reading
Newsweek’s latest issue carries this column by its columnist Jonathan Alter, in favor of “top-two” election systems. Here is his column, which is titled, “The Jackass-Reduction Plan.” Here is the text of a letter Ballot Access News has just sent … Continue reading
The Athens Banner-Herald, of Athens, Georgia, ran this op-ed on September 17, by Jeffrey Moss. Moss deplored Georgia’s ballot access laws, which have kept all minor party candidates for U.S. House off the ballot (in regularly-scheduled elections) ever since 1942. … Continue reading