June 21, 2026
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From Ballot Access News comes news that even through the Arizona Green Party was off of the registration form, they gained registered members.
The Arizona Secretary of State has again started tracking how many registered Green Party members there are in Arizona.
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Independent candidate for Governor Tim Cahill, the sitting State Treasurer of Massachusetts, vowed to fight back after a series of brutal attack ads from the GOP.…
Carl Paladino is a gubernatorial candidate for the Republican Party and Conservative Party in New York. He claims that if he does not receive the nomination of the Conservative Party, he will petition to form a Tea Party of New York ballot-line.…
The former Communication Director of the Constitution Party, Mary Starrett, has been running for Yamhill County Commissioner in Yamhill County, Oregon. Her race took place on Tuesday, May 18th.…
Todd Pritsky, who is running for VT House as an independent this fall, has decried the state’s ballot access regime as “election Calvinball.” As Pritsky wrote last Friday in a post under that title:
the Legislature very bravely changed this year’s election rules very late in the game, so the Secretary of State has moved up filing deadlines for Independent candidates from September to June.
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Richmond, California is the largest city in the United States with a Green mayor, with a population of over 100,000. That mayor is Gayle McLaughlin, and she’s running for reelection. …
Email from Wayne Allyn Root:
“I fear the LP is running out of time. The irrational want to keep the party small so they may appear to be ‘big fish’.…
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