North Carolina Green Party Scores Major Win in Ballot Access Dispute
The State Board of Elections has allowed the Green Party to register as an official political party amid a signature validity dispute plaguing its House and Senate candidates.
The State Board of Elections has allowed the Green Party to register as an official political party amid a signature validity dispute plaguing its House and Senate candidates.
Andrew Yang's rebooted Forward Party glosses over Americans’ conflicting values and preferences.
Reporter Eric Boehm unpacks the batty requirements confronting third party candidates in a Georgia congressional race.
Good intentions, bad results.
McMullin ran a third-party campaign for president in 2016.
”We stand for repealing the entire Progressive Era,” says Smith.
The election serves as a trial run for Alaska's new voting process, which could be a boon for third-party candidates.
Dominating the convention body by more than two-thirds, the Mises Caucus claims to offer an edgier, more libertarian organization. Foes accuse it of right-wing deviationism and racism.
"We need to break up the duopoly, and the mechanical way to break up the duopoly is by shifting to open primaries and ranked choice votings so that every perspective has a shot."
Having to collect as many as 20,000 signatures for a House race was not considered a "severe" burden by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Friday A/V Club: In 1992, it was a paramilitary America Firster who wanted to #MintTheCoin.
Millions rejected choosing any alternative to Gov. Newsom. Did they “throw their vote away?” Of course not.
Live-and-let-live political types are stuck between cultists and totalitarians.
Renew America Movement co-founder Miles Taylor vows, "We will split the vote and sink him."
A social media struggle in the New Hampshire L.P. fractured a state party and triggered a national meltdown.
Anti-Trump Republicans have yet to win an intra-party fight. And launching third parties are for marathoners, not sprinters.
Three reasons to be skeptical about Evan McMullin's latest political initiative.
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The president could form a sizable splinter party if he's serious, but GOP defectors would have major ballot-access issues. Might they take over a smaller party instead?
Which leaves the U.S. without a major party even slightly inclined to leave people alone to manage their own affairs.
One presidential candidate received approximately 29 votes. He's surprised he got that many.
Burt won against an incumbent Democrat in Wyoming on a platform of gun rights, educational innovation, and a more diversified economy.
Third-party voters tend to sit out elections without third-party choices.
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The Libertarian presidential nominee is at 1.14 percent, has 1.58 million votes, and is ahead of all third-party candidates in every state. She's also beating the Trump-Biden spread in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nevada.
And in a three-way race for governor in Indiana, Libertarian Donald Rainwater gets more than 13 percent and wins more than 20 counties.
"I obviously identify with and resonate with and connect with my libertarian brothers and sisters on so many levels," says the controversial former child actor.
The Libertarian ticket is campaigning against lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and the World Health Organization, in addition to the usual taxation, prohibition, and war.
LDS disaffection could help swing Arizona blue.
Ricky Dale Harrington is polling at 38 percent in a two-way race against one of the leading voices of the GOP's ascendant authoritarian nationalism.
Two November ballot initiatives would introduce ranked-choice voting in two more states.
"If it were me, I would certainly put my nominee forth," Jorgensen says. Partisan bickering over the confirmation process is just "politics as usual."
Lindsey Graham just dodged a third-party bullet, but there are a handful of other tossup Senate races where third-party candidates could exceed the major candidates' margin.
While establishmentarians continue to push two-party conformity, there remains little evidence that other parties are having any sort of "spoiler" effect.
Major-party politicians avoid tax simplification almost as aggressively as the rich avoid taxation, argue the Reason Roundtable panelists.
The Libertarian presidential nominee is polling at 5 percent. Who are her followers?
Voting for Libertarian, Green, or independent candidates will not mean “throwing your vote away.”
If Biden retains his 2–1 advantage among 2016 Libertarian and Green voters, Trump is probably toast.
A political party can be destroyed by warring factions after it nominates a celebrity candidate and loses its coherence. That’s what happened…after 1848, when the Whigs backed Zachary Taylor.
Hostility to political opponents sustains what's left of the legacy parties.
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At least 100 million Americans live in states where the presidential winner is a foregone conclusion. Maybe don't reward your party for nominating candidates you don't like?
Is the Kanye 2020 platform designed to steal votes from Joe Biden?
But she warns against "opportunistic people hijacking the movement.”
Ricky Dale Harrington, Jr., is running to keep Tom Cotton out of the White House.
The Protect My Ballot campaign is out to stop ranked-choice voting.
"Garrett Foster understood that libertarianism was about speaking on behalf of those who are the most acutely affected by the abuses perpetrated by an overly aggressive and unaccountable government."