This ten-minute You Tube video interview with Brock Pierce, independent presidential candidates, contains a portion in which Pierce says he intends to start a new party next year. He has not yet chosen the name. The issues the party would stand for are revealed in the interview.
On September 14, the Wisconsin Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Wisconsin Elections Commission that Howie Hawkins should not be on the ballot. The decision does not decide whether he was removed properly or not, but merely says he waited too long to sue, and it would cause too much disruption to put him on the ballot now. Hawkins v Wisconsin Elections Commission, 2020AP-1488-OA. Here is the 50-page decision. The vote was 4-3.
The Liberty Union Party, organized only in Vermont, has been running nominees for Vermont state office for 50 continuous years, starting in 1970. But in 2020, it has no nominees, other than Gloria La Riva for President.
The only minor parties in any state in the U.S. which have been on the ballot continuously for a longer period are the Conservative Party of New York (which had its first nominees in 1962), and the American Independent Party of California (1968).
In mid-August 2020, the Florida League of Women Voters changed its position on Amendment 3, the top-two initiative that is on the November 2020 ballot. See the League’s recommendation here.
Last year the Florida League had endorsed the measure.
On September 14, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued an order in the Green Party ballot access case, which is called In Re Nomination Paper of Elizabeth Faye Scroggin, 55 MAP 2020. It says, “The Secretary of the Commonwealth is directed not to certify the final general election ballot pending further order of this Court.”
The Green Party statewide Pennsylvania statewide petition had enough valid signatures, and the party’s non-presidential nominees for statewide state office are on the ballot. The lawsuit is over whether Howie Hawkins should be on the ballot as a presidential candidate. The state had put him on, but the challengers say the paperwork concerning the stand-in is not acceptable. The Commonwealth Court had put Hawkins on the ballot.
