The Post-Standard, daily newspaper of Syracuse, New York, has this good-natured and clear explanation of the details of petitioning in New York state. Thanks to Bill Van Allen for the link.
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The New Agenda is an organization started in 2008 that seeks to achieve opportunity for women by addressing issues which unite women, and by advancing women into leadership roles in the U.S. The New Agenda’s blog has this July 11 article about Lynne Williams, who is seeking the Green Party nomination for Governor of Maine.
The article’s lead sentence, “Lynne Williams is the only woman from a third party running on a gubernatorial ticket” is not well-thought out, but the remainder of the article is worth reading.
The Gotham Gazette has created an on-line computer board game, “Ballot Bump”. See it here. The game has three players, a Pigeon who wants to run in a major party primary without support from the party organization; a Heron who wants to run in a party primary with party support; and a Starling who wants to run as an independent.
Although the game seems to start as a maze, it really is a knowledge game. One advances one’s bird along the maze by correctly answering multiple-choice questions about the process of getting on the ballot.
Richard Whitney, the Green Party nominee for Governor of Illinois in 2006 who polled 10.36%, will run for Governor in 2010. See this story from the politics column from the July 12 issue of the Springfield, Illinois daily newspaper, the State Journal-Register (scroll down). The story says he will formally announce on July 15.
Michael Waldman, Executive Director of the Brennan Center, has this article, boosting the National Popular Vote Plan, in Washington Monthly.