Oregon Voters Pamphlet Contains Statements About Five Minor Parties, but None for the Republican and Democratic Parties

Oregon is one of the states that mails a Voter Pamphlet to each registered voter. The Oregon pamphlet includes a page for each party to explain its principles. However, this year, according to this story, the Democratic and Republican Parties failed to submit such a statement, so they are omitted from this part of the Pamphlet. Each of the five qualified minor parties did submit a statement.

Here is a link to the Table of Contents for the Voters Pamphlet. Click on the link for any particular party listed to read that party’s statement.

San Diego City Ballots Accidentally Show Write-in Space for Mayoral Run-off

According to this article, the November 2012 ballots for city office in San Diego accidentally include write-in space. The city eliminated write-ins in municipal run-offs approximately five years ago. But a ballot printing error causes write-in space to appear on this year’s ballot. The city is electing a Mayor. Thanks to Jack Dean for the link.

PBS News Hour Gives Five Minutes of Coverage to Free & Equal Presidential Debate

On October 24, the Public Broadcasting Service News Hour contained a 5-minute and 30 second segment about the October 23 presidential debate between Rocky Anderson, Virgil Goode, Gary Johnson, and Jill Stein. Here is a link to the News Hour web page, although it may be a few hours before tonight’s segment is posted. Thanks to Ken Bush for this news.

UPDATE: here is a link to the David Letterman show, which showed a few seconds for each of the four candidates. Here is an editorial in the Daily Reveille, student newspaper at Louisiana State University, praising the candidates for airing issues not mentioned by the two major party candidates. Thanks to Kimberly Wilder for the Letterman link.

Justice Party Has Two State Legislative Candidates in the U.S. This Year

The Justice Party, which is less than a year old, has two state legislative candidate on the ballot this year. One is Ty Markham, running for the Utah State House, 73rd district. That district encompasses southeastern and south central Utah, and is physically the largest state house district in the state. Here is her web page. Here is a newspaper story that explains how she happened to file to run. Here is a story about the debate she participated in. She is the only opponent of the incumbent Republican in that district, Michael Noel.

The other Justice Party legislative candidate is Benjamin Eastwood, running for the Vermont House in Washington County. His district elects two representatives. Besides Eastwood, there are two Democrats running, and one Progressive.