Working Families has 5 South Carolina Nominations

Posted on by September 13, 2006
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The Working Families Party, appearing on the ballot in South Carolina this year for the first time, has nominated 5 candidates. They include two for US House of Representatives, 2 for the state legislature, and one for county commissioner in Charleston County. All five are also Democratic nominees. The state will tally the votes each receives under each party label.

Working Families Party candidates will thus appear on the ballot in three states this November: South Carolina, Connecticut and New York. Although the party is also ballot-qualified in Oregon and Delaware, it has no candidates in those two states.

Pro-Minor Party Author, Attorney Wins Democratic Primary for Maryland Legislative Seat

Posted on by September 13, 2006
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On September 12, Jamie Raskin won his Democratic primary race for a seat in the Maryland State Senate, defeating the incumbent Democratic Senator.

Raskin is an attorney who represented an independent candidate in the only U.S. Supreme Court case over entry to candidate debates (Arkansas Educational TV v Forbes). Raskin also represented the Reform Party in the 9th circuit in 1998, in a challenge to a federal public campaign funding law that provides unequal general election funding to parties that got over 5%, but under 25%, of the last presidential vote. He also wrote “Overruling Democracy”, a book that criticizes the U.S. Supreme Court’s hostility toward minor parties and independent candidates.

Green Illinois Gubernatorial Candidate at 6% in Poll

Posted on by September 13, 2006
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A Chicago Tribune/WGN-TV poll of the Illinois gubernatorial race, released September 11, shows this result: Democratic 45%, Republican 33%, Green 6%, undecided or write-in 16%.

If the Green Party does poll 5% or more of the gubernatorial vote, it will become a qualified party in Illinois for all partisan office. No nationally-organized minor party has been a qualified party in Illinois for all partisan office since the Socialist Party lost that status in 1924. The Illinois vote test was 2%, not 5%, until 1931.

New Mexico Ballot Access Hearing Set for Sep. 18

Posted on by September 12, 2006
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The New Mexico ballot access case hearing will be in federal court on September 18. The judge will probably rule very soon afterwards whether to place the Libertarian Party nominees on the ballot. The issue is whether New Mexico (uniquely among all states) may require a new party to submit one petition to qualify itself, and then additional petitions for each of the people it has nominated by convention. The party already did the petition to qualify itself, and argues that the state has no interest in requiring any more petitions.

Poll Shows Georgia Libertarian Gubernatorial Nominee at 8%

Posted on by September 12, 2006
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A Zogby/Wall St. Journal, published on September 12 in the Atlanta daily newspapers, shows these results for Governor: Republican 47.4%, Democratic 36.4%, Libertarian 8.1%, undecided or write-in 8.1%.

The best showing in the past for a Georgia Libertarian gubernatorial candidate was in 1998, when the party polled 3.43%. The worst showing was 2002, at 2.36%.