June 2, 2026
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Politicians and the mainstream media haven’t seemed to discuss immigration policy much since the 2008 campaigns for federal offices, when they made it a prominent and seemingly critical issue.…
The Constitution Party of Pennsylvania submitted approximately 35,000 petition signatures in an effort to make the ballot in their state, where the requirement is 20,601 valid petitions.…
Rocky Anderson has been nominated by the Independent Party of Connecticut for President. This party last nominated a presidential candidate in 2008, receiving over 1% of the votes for Ralph Nader, which helped them to retain their ballot access for 2012.…
Richard Winger is reporting at Ballot Access News that three different parties have submitted their petitions to appear on the statewide ballots in New York. The Libertarian Party, IPR has already reported about.…
The Commission on Presidential Debates has recently added an email address for comments to their main page at:
The comments email address is: [email protected] and results (at least for this reporter) in a reply of:
Thank you for your comment.
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Ballot Access News reports that a “Washington State Court Determines that Republicans Did Have a Nominee in 2010, so it Retained its Qualified Status.”
The full article is posted here.…
This is the third in a series of essays sent out by the Southern Party of Georgia. I posted the first one, but somehow missed the second one (available here).…
The following “Response in Opposition to Defendants Knight, Tabor, Vetanen, Weston, Skyba and Karlock’s Rule 21 Motions” in Case No. CV 12010345 in the Oregon matter — see prior IPR articles here:
From a media release sent to IPR:
Media Contact: Janet Hopf
202-270-0188
[email protected]
lpny.org
Albany, NY—The Libertarian Party of New York submitted over 25,000 signatures Tuesday to give New Yorkers an alternative to the failed policies of the major parties.…