June 24, 2026
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At reason.com today:
* Matt Welch reports that the Provo, UT Daily Herald has become the first daily newspaper to endorse McMullin. Welch writes:
With the McMullin endorsement, our unofficial count in the daily editorial wars stands like this: Hillary Clinton 215, Donald Trump 8, Gary Johnson 6, Evan McMullin 1.
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A growing trend across the country at the state level is passage of laws prohibiting so-called ballot selfies, which is “taking a digital image or photograph of [a] marked ballot and distributing or sharing the image via social media or by any other means.”…
Received by IPR earlier today
“Come join Evan McMullin in Park City for a Dogs for McMullin Halloween activity!
“Park City (Utah) is home to the annual
Nevada Libertarian Assemblyman John Moore has shared with the LNC a redacted version of his rationale for two controversial votes he cast, one to enable the Clark County Commission to raise taxes to fund police and one to subsidize football stadium construction by Sheldon Adelson, who is trying to bring the Raiders to Las Vegas.…
Matt Canham in the Salt Lake Tribune (H/T Ballot Access News):
Independent candidate replies, “While you were harassing women at beauty pageants, I was fighting terrorists abroad.”
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In the 2016 presidential election, 31 individuals are on the ballot in at least one state. This is the most in U.S.
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Darcy G. Richardson at Uncovered Politics:
“They gave this election dignity,” asserted actor and debate moderator Ed Asner in his closing remarks at Tuesday night’s Free and Equal third-party presidential debate in Boulder.…
In a minor league “October surprise,” LP.org launched a site redesign two weeks before the election. Wes Benedict wrote to LNC:
Expect lots of problems, and lots of fixes, some within minutes and hours, others days or weeks.
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GP.org:
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One week before what’s shaping up to be an historic presidential election, Tavis Smiley on PBS will host a presidential forum featuring the third party candidates, Jill Stein of the Green Party and Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party.…
