Black Box Voting, of “Hacking Democracy” fame, sent out an email to its supporters this week asking them to volunteer. Not for the organization, but to volunteer as tech support for voting machine vendors on Election Day.Â…
Posts published in August 2008
Libertarian Barr chats at Washingtonpost.com
By PJO on August 25, 2008 3:52 AM
Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr participated in a Washingtonpost.com chat last Thursday. The discussion dealt with FISA, energy policy, and other issues. Asked if be would appear at Rep.…
Green ticket, Sheehan join Denver protests
By PJO on August 25, 2008 1:52 AM
According to create68 (link now dead), Green presidential nominee Cynthia McKinney was one of the speakers at a Sunday rally in Denver calling on the U.S.…
Zogby: Barr 4%, McKinney 1%, Nader 1%
By PJO on August 25, 2008 1:24 AM
In a Zogby online survey of 2,248 likely voters nationally, conducted August 23-24 (+/- 2.1%), Libertarian Bob Barr is at four percent in the presidential race, with Green Cynthia McKinney and independent Ralph Nader each at one percent.…
Rockwell won’t accept ‘very kind offer’ to be listed as Ron Paul’s running mate in Louisiana
By Editorial Team on August 24, 2008 3:08 PM
Saying that IPR’s Trent Hill had done him a “great honor” by including him with Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell nonetheless says he “cannot accept” the “very kind offer” to be listed as a candidate for vice president in Louisiana.…
LP Chairman Bill Redpath campaigning for U.S. Senate in Virginia
By Editorial Team on August 24, 2008 2:06 AM
In a fundraising letter to benefit his candidacy for U.S. Senate in Virginia, Libertarian Party National Chairman Bill Redpath says he spent $23,000 of his own money to get on the ballot as a candidate.…
Las Vegas Review-Journal backs broader debates
By PJO on August 23, 2008 11:28 PM
In an editorial, the Las Vegas Review-Journal calls for full inclusion in debates.
The newspaper says “voters are purposely kept ignorant of other candidates who may be listed for president on their November ballot by the Commission on Presidential Debates,” and argues, “The presidential debates should be returned to the control of a legitimate nonpartisan organization.…
American Independent Party wants McCain off California ballot
By PJO on August 23, 2008 11:26 PM
Legal NewsLine reports that the American Independent Party is seeking to have John McCain’s name removed from the presidential ballot in California, arguing “in court papers that federal law would bar the former Vietnam War POW from taking office were he to be elected in November because he was born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936 while his father was stationed at Coco Solo Naval Air Station.…
Barr says Libertarians ‘understand the Constitution’
By PJO on August 23, 2008 11:24 PM
At a Libertarian Party of Georgia fundraiser Saturday evening, presidential nominee Bob Barr said the “current two-party political system has left Americans “wandering in a constitutional wilderness,’†the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.…