August 11, 2026
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Bob Barr blog reports that video of the Reason magazine counter-debate with Libertarian Party presidential nominee Bob Barr is now available:
In other Barr news, the blog has video of the candidate on the Fox program Your World with Neil Cavuto:
Barr has five campaign stops in the Charleston, SC area today, and has been given credit by the American Spectator, Politico Gamedayand the New York Times for helping to stop the Wall Street bailout.…
21 September 2008 Here: 329 members. Facebook: 461. Today we received the final vote to make the national committee unanimous. We now have a state affiliate in Kansas.…
The Independence Party of New York has endorsed John McCain for president, “the first time New York’s third-largest party has backed a major-party presidential candidate,” the AP reports.…
The Village Voice reports on its website that Rep. Charles Rangel of New York will be challenged by Craig Schley, “a former Rangel intern who has never run for any elected office.”…
Press release from the national Green Party
Malapportionment of Electoral College votes may lead to a Republican victory despite the popular vote, disenfranchising tens of thousands of voters, especially black voters in southern states
Green civil action seeks to democratize the Electoral College by enforcing 14th Amendment voter protections, names Vice President Cheney as defendent
WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party leaders said today that the outcome of the 2008 presidential election may be affected by the antidemocratic apportionment of Electoral College votes, with the popular vote misrepresented by the winner-take-all system of assigning votes to electors.…
Posted at Ballot Access News
At least ten presidential nominating conventions will be held in August and September:
1. The Peace and Freedom Party meets in Sacramento, California, on August 2-3.
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In this essay, LP radical and LPNY state chair Eric Sundwall advocates that radical libertarians avoid the BTP and stay in the LP. It is entitled Party Like It’s 1973, an apparent ironic reference to Party like it’s 1773 by BTP interim chair Jim Davidson.…
A post on the Village Voice website Friday afternoon said Green Party presidential nominee Cynthia McKinney was scheduled to appear in Manhattan Friday evening to kick off her New York ballot access drive.…
Originally posted in Ballot Access News
The incumbent Republican Congressman in New York’s 13th district, Vito Fossella, is not running for re-election. Last month, the Republican Party leadership choice for the seat, Francis H.
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