November 8, 2026
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According to a page at the North Carolina Board of Elections website, Cynthia McKinney is now an official write-in candidate for President.
North Carolina’s ballot access laws are so draconian that the Green Party’s efforts to secure a ballot line in the state have fallen far short of the number set by the state.…
By way of Ronald Kane Hardy at
Green Party Watch
Article about Albany Alum (and GP VP) Rosa Clemente by Mark Perry in the Times Union:
Rosa Clemente came to the University at Albany at a heady time for minority student activism.
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Green presdiential nominee Cynthia McKinney campaigned in Durham, North Carolina, on Tuesday, WRAL.com reported. McKinney “needs 500 signatures of North Carolina voters to be an official write-in candidate on the state ballot in November.”…
In his Greensboro News-Record column, Edward Cone offers “an update on Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Mike Munger, described last year in this column as ‘maybe too sane for high office’: North Carolinians put the Libertarian Party on the ballot for November, but Munger still is excluded from the gubernatorial debates.…
A poll taken for incumbent Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole in North Carolina shows Libertarian challenger Chris Cole running at six percent. Dole leads Democrat Kay Hagan 51% to 36%, with seven percent undecided.…
The North Carolina Green Party learned today that they face a shorter deadline than they had expected to file paperwork to secure a spot for Cynthia McKinney as a write-in candidate.…
Chris Cole, Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate in North Carolina, issued the following statement in response to the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac meltdown and calls from Democrats, Republicans, and Libertarians (Bob Barr and the Cato Institute) to bail out the GSEs:
“I am a collector of antique American currency.…
The following is posted on Last Free Voice by ElfNinosMom; the author is Steve Newton.
These same types of major party shenanigans to marginalize independents and smaller parties even after they overcome massive ballot access hurdles take place in states all over the country.…
And where are they listed?
LP.org is not much help.
A few are here. Many more are not.
NC sent us a list (below). How about the other states?…