November 7, 2026
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The Alabama Senate Constitution, Ethics & Elections Committee will hear SB 221 on Wednesday, March 18, at 11 a.m. This is the bill to ease the number of signatures for newly-qualifying parties and independent candidates, and also to set a later petition deadline for new parties.
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From the LPO website:
The legal challenge from the Libertarian Party of Ohio to the “John Kasich Re-election Protection Act” has not yet been decided, in spite of confusing news reports published Monday.…
From Richard Winger at Ballot Access News:
On March 13, the South Dakota legislature passed SB 69, which makes ballot access worse for both newly-qualifying parties and independent candidates.…
From a Green Party US email blast:
Why should you come to the 2015 Green Party Annual Meeting in St. Louis in July? We’ve all invested time getting to gatherings that end up being great chances to hang out for a couple days … but not much else.…
Run Jesse Run!
By Dan Phillips, MD.
March 16, 2015
Jesse Ventura has long been discussed as a possible candidate for the Libertarian Party (LP) presidential nomination.…
March 15, 2015
By Chris Hedges
SEATTLE—Kshama Sawant, the socialist on the City Council, is up for re-election this year. Since joining the council in January of 2014 she has helped push through a gradual raising of the minimum wage to $15 an hour in Seattle.…
UPDATE: A correction of this story is posted in a separate article at IPR.
On March 16, a U.S. District Court upheld Ohio’s ballot access law for newly-qualifying parties.…
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Judd was on the Executive Committee of the Libertarian Party of California as recently as December, 2014.…
