Canada is holding a special parliamentary election in Manitoba on June 19 to fill a vacancy. The special election ballot has 48 candidates listed. There would have only been six candidates, except that the Longest Ballot Committee, a group that is trying to get proportional representation for Canada, deliberately encouraged 42 individuals to file, just to bring attention to their cause.

See this story. All of the 42 individuals have a single campaign treasurer, and all are on the ballots as independents except for one who is listed as the nominee of the Rhinocerus Party.

Candidates get on the ballot for member of the federal parliament by filing 100 signatures. Thanks to Tom MacMillan for the link.

On June 13, Cornel West tweeted, “In the spirit of a broad United Front and Coalition strategy, I am pursuing the nomination of the Green Party for president of the United States. I thank the volunteers of the People’s Party for the initial launch.” His website is CornelWest24.com.

The best-known example of a presidential candidate who had the nomination of multiple parties was U.S. Senator Robert La Follette in 1924. He had the nomination of the Socialist Party and also of the Farmer-Labor Party, as well as his independent candidacy using the label “Progressive”. Voters could choose which label to support La Follette in Colorado, Connecticut, Missouri, Montana, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

Missouri Agrees, a campaign of the organization Show Me Integrity (SMI), is now circulating a petition that would place an initiative on the November 2024 ballot in that state to mandate Approval Voting for all federal, state, and local elections. A volunteer petitioning effort is underway, but SMI thinks it needs to start a paid petition drive by July 1 for this initiative petition to succeed. The estimated cost of that is $1.2 million. SMI has located a potential donor who had pledged $600,000, with the proviso that the other $600,000 be raised first.

This is the Missouri Agrees website:

https://www.missouriagrees.org

SMI will be holding a Zoom call on this effort on Thursday, June 15, from 2:00 to 2:20PM Central Time. SMI would like interested parties to RSVP at this link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvcO2rqjkrGtzh8HJEOP2eOe0OZiWjjX4h#/registration