Forbes has this op-ed by Doug Bandow, criticizing the Republican Party for trying to limit voter choices in this year’s election. Bandow is an author and television commentator.
Slate has a somewhat similar article here, by David Weigel.
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A new party called Descendants of Americans Slaves has qualified two candidates for the Kentucky state legislature. Norris Shelton, author of “America’s Little Black Book”, is the only opponent to the Democratic nominee in the 33rd State Senate district in Louisville. Henry Owens III is the only opponent of the Democratic nominee in the 41st State House district, also in Louisville. Here is some information about Shelton.
On October 22, Suffolk University released a poll for the Ohio presidential race, which asks voters about all seven candidates listed on the ballot. The poll also asks what percentage of voters have heard of the various presidential candidates. See it here. Thanks to Mike for the link. There is so much publicity about Ohio being a crucial state, it is somewhat likely that the minor party vote in Ohio is depressed, relative to the vote in non-swing states.
On October 21, voters in Stuttgart, Germany elected a Green Party Mayor. See this story. Stuttgart is the sixth largest city in Germany, and has over 600,000 residents in the city limits, and millions in the metropolitan area.
The Metropolitican News Enterprise, a Los Angeles daily newspaper covering legal news for 110 years, has a story about the October 18 decision of a U.S. District Court in Justice Committee v Bowen. That is the decision that declared California’s deadline for groups trying to qualify as parties to be too early.