The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
On October 5, the U.S. Supreme Court heard Carney v Adams, 19-309. This is the case over Delaware’s Constitution, which says that no one is eligible to be a member of the three most important state courts unless that individual is a registered member of a party that has voter registration of at least 5%. …
BOOK REVIEW: INDEPENDENT POLITICS Independent Politics, How American Disdain for Parties Leads to Political Inaction, by Samara Klar and Yanna Krupnikov, 2016. Cambridge U. Press, 200 pages. Ballot Access News, 1 September 2018 Re-printed in full with permission. The authors are political scientists. Klar is at the University of Arizona and is a registered Democrat. …
On November 8, 2016, Maine voters embraced the use of instant runoff voting (IRV) for all future elections to Congress and state offices. This is the first time any state have implemented IRV, an idea that has been championed by electoral reformists — among other ideas — for twenty years. IRV implements ranked choices in …
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To help future “other” presidential candidates, we need a change in the rules for the Commission on Presidential Debates; we need to eliminate the electoral college; we need ballot access reform in many states; we need to advance ranked-choice voting. There are areas of activism proceeding right now in all those areas:
The Federal Election Commission recognizes 8 parties as national committees. They are: Democratic Republican Libertarian Constitution Reform Green Natural Law Socialist The FEC has no mechanism to de-list a party that has gone defunct. The Natural Law Party is defunct, except it is still on the ballot and active in Michigan. Previous Post from Richard …
Responding to the Question: Has anyone tried to get Congress to do a law putting all national party candidates on state ballots? Richard Winger Responds: Congress only has authority to regulate ballot access for federal elections (Congress and President). In 9 different sessions of Congress, bills to require easy ballot access for minor party and …
The issue of general election presidential debate inclusion has been litigated to death. There has been loss after loss after loss for 35 years. There is only one way to fix the debates problem. That is the strategy used in 2007-2008 by “Rock the Debates.” A few dedicated people who lived in Iowa and New …
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