On June 3, Andy Dawkins, who was a Democratic-Farmer-Labor representative from St. Paul, Minnesota, for 15 years, said he is now a Green Party member and that he will be the party’s candidate for Attorney General this year. He submitted more than the required 2,000 signatures. If he gets 5%, the Green Party will regain(More)…
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On June 3, California held a top-two primary for Congress and partisan state office. All 25 minor party candidates who were on the ballot failed to place first or second. As a result, in all U.S. history, there have now been 111 instances in which a minor party member ran for Congress or partisan state(More)…
Shortly into the new year Sam sat me down and told me the news that I had feared ever since he had returned from Germany. His new girlfriend was moving …
Blaine Richardson has qualified for the Maine general election ballot, as an independent candidate for U.S. House, 2nd district. He is the first non-major party nominee to be on the Maine general election ballot for U.S. House since 2006. Maine and Georgia were the only states with a Democratic-Republican monopoly for U.S. House during the(More)…
Ohio voter registration forms don’t ask voters to choose a party. Yet the state tries to determine the party membership of voters, based on their choice of a primary ballot at the polls on election day. According to this story, many voters who did not choose a Green Party primary ballot last month still were(More)…
The Atlanta Progressive News has this story about the pending Green Party-Constitution Party challenging Georgia’s ballot access procedures for non-major party presidential candidates.
On Saturday evening, May 31, the New York Working Families Party endorsed Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic candidate, for Governor. Although technically all ballot-qualified parties in New York nominate by primary, the endorsement means Cuomo has qualified for the WFP primary, and it is virtually certain that no other candidate will be on the party’s primary(More)…
At the end of May, the US House of Representatives made headlines for voting on an amendment that would restrict the Drug Enforcement Agency from obstructing state industrial hemp programs, …
On May 30, the Louisiana Senate amended HB 431 so that the bill, in addition to making campaign finance changes, moves the presidential primary from mid-March to early March. If the bill is signed into law, the 2016 presidential primary will be March 5 instead of March 19. Thanks to Frontloading HQ for this news.(More)…
