It is likely that the Lou Dobbs show will air a brief interview with Richard Winger on Friday, November 3. The show runs from 6 pm to 7 pm eastern time.
Also, Bill Redpath, national chair of the Libertarian Party, will be on C-SPAN call-in Saturday, November 4, between 9 am and 9:30 am eastern time.
On November 1, the Ohio Secretary of State signed a consent order, settling the lawsuit The Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless v Blackwell, sou. dist., C2-06-896. Absentee ballots received by mail that contain the voter’s date of birth, address and signature will be counted. At the polls, a wide range of ID will be accepted, not just government photo-ID. The order does not apply to elections that occur in 2007 and future years.
On November 1, the Ohio Secretary of State signed a consent order, settling the lawsuit The Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless v Blackwell, sou. dist., C2-06-896. Absentee ballots received by mail that contain the voter’s date of birth, address and signature will be counted. At the polls, a wide range of ID will be accepted, not just government photo-ID. The order does not apply to elections that occur in 2007 and future years.
On October 30, an independent candidate for the Arizona legislature, George Seaman, sued over that state’s policy of giving a free list of registered voters to the qualified parties, but no one else. The case is Seaman v Yavapai County, cv-2006-1211, Prescott.
In 1970, the U.S. Supreme Court settled this issue favorably. If government officials give the list of registered voters to the qualified parties, they must also give it to candidates of non-qualified parties and independent candidates. Arizona officials have known about this precedent for many years, but they have never changed their law. The precedent was Socialist Workers Party v New York State Bd. of Elections, 400 U.S. 806 (1970). The US Supreme Court action was a summary affirmance of a 3-judge U.S. District Court decision.
Rogers, Arkansas, is in the northwestern part of the state. The high school, which has 1,500 students, recently held a Mock Election. The gubernatorial results: Governor: Democrat Mike Beebe 39.5%, Republican Asa Hutchinson 36.8%, Green Jim Lendall 11.1%, independent Rod Bryan 7.5%.
Rogers is in Benton County, where 68.4% of the voters voted for President Bush in 2004.
