Unity08’s web page, www.unity08.com, has a blog section on the right-hand column. On September 14 the group posted its first detailed message about qualifying as a party. The posting shows that the group will concentrate first on Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Utah. The party has already completed the necessary work in Florida.

Unity08’s web page also changes each day, to show how many voters have signed up as members. The total seems to increase by about 100 per day, and as of September 17, is at 104,735.

Lincoln Chafee, who was elected to the U.S. Senate from Rhode Island as a Republican in 2000 and who was defeated for re-election in 2006, changed his registration from “Republican” to “Independent” back in June or July 2007. No one noticed until a few days ago. Here is one article about the reasons for his action. This year has seen at least three news-worthy Republicans change their registration from “Republican” to either independent voter status, or to a minor party; the others are Mayor Michael Bloomberg and John Frohnmayer.

On September 14, the state Reform Parties of Texas, Michigan and Florida filed a lawsuit against the national Reform Party, arguing that their expulsion from the national Reform Party in Yuma in November 2005 violated due process. The attorney for the three state parties is Matt Sawyer, who was the Reform Party’s chief ballot access attorney during the 1990’s. The case is Texas Reform Party v Reform Party of the USA, Dallas County District Court 07-9217.