Bruce Fein, attorney for Gary Johnson and Jill stein in their lawsuit against the Commission on Presidential Debates, is interviewed by Reason about the August 5 decision in that lawsuit.
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On August 6, the Green Party nominated Jill Stein for President and Ajamu Baraka for Vice-President. Independent Political Report has the roll call vote for President.
Sauk County, Wisconsin District Attorney Kevin Calkins is running for re-election as an independent. In 2012 he was elected as the Republican nominee. See this story. The county has a population of 63,162.
This article says already 11 presidential candidates have qualified for the Colorado November 2016 ballot. Furthermore, more may file, because the deadline is not until August 10. Not all the five qualified parties have certified their presidential nominees, but the author assumed that each one would do that.
The story says Colorado had 17 presidential candidates in 2012, but actually Colorado had 16. The author seems to have erroneously included a write-in candidate from 2012.
Colorado also had 16 presidential candidates in 2008. No state other than Colorado has ever had more than 14 presidential candidates on its general election ballot. Presidential candidates qualify by paying $1,000 and submitting a list of presidential elector candidates.
According to this story, Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, will speak to the Green Party national convention on Saturday, August 6, at 11:45 a.m. Texas time. The convention is in Houston. Assange is spending years in Ecuador’s embassy in London, England.