Green Party, and Working Families Party, are Back on the Ballot in Delaware
Source: Ballot Access News The Green Party, and the Working Families Party, each now have enough registrations in Delaware to be on the November 2012 ballot. The Constitution Party still doesn’t have...
View ArticleConnecticut Republican Party Sues Secretary of State Over Order of Political...
Source: Ballot Access News Connecticut election law, sec. 9-249a, says “The names of the parties shall be arranged on ballots in the following order: (1) the party whose candidate for Governor polled...
View ArticleNew York Working Families Party Will Choose a Presidential Nominee on...
Source: Ballot Access News The Working Families Party of New York will formally choose a presidential nominee on September 5. It is overwhelmingly likely that it will nominate President Obama. The real...
View ArticleNew York State Working Families Party Nominates President Obama for President
Source: Ballot Access News On the evening of September 5, the New York Working Families Party nominated Barack Obama for President. The party had done the same in 2008. The New York Working Families...
View ArticleSouth Carolina Working Families Party Gains Greater Acceptance
Source: Ballot Access News South Carolina has always permitted fusion (i.e., letting two parties jointly nominate the same candidate), but it has not been used very much in the last 100 years. The...
View ArticleConnecticut Newspaper Article About the Two Connecticut Parties that Use...
Source: Ballot Access News The Day, one of the biggest newspapers in eastern Connecticut, has this interesting article about the Independent Party and the Working Families Party. The story has one...
View ArticleNew York Working Familes Party Polls 241,531 Votes for U.S. Senate
Source: Ballot Access News The New York Working Families Party polled 241,531 votes for U.S. Senate last month. This is the first time the party has ever exceeded the 200,000 vote barrier for a...
View ArticleColorado Libertarian Party Was Only Non-Major Party to Run Nominees for a...
Source: Ballot Access News In the November 2012 election, the Colorado Libertarian Party was the only party, other than the Democratic and Republican Parties, to place its own member-nominees for the...
View ArticleConservative Party is Still Biggest Vote-Getting Party in New York State,...
Source: Ballot Access News On November 2012, the Working Families Party New York nominee for U.S. Senate (who was also the Democratic nominee) received more votes on the Working Families line than the...
View ArticleDon Shaffer, One of Working Family Party’s Founders, Dies
Source: Ballot Access News On February 18, Don Shaffer died. He had been a founder of the New Party in 1992, and also a founder of the Working Families Party in 1997. See this article in The Nation,...
View ArticleNew York Daily News Story Says New York Independence Party Got Large...
Source: Ballot Access News The New York Daily News and other media are reporting that a substantial portion of contributions to the New York state Independence Party in recent months has been from the...
View ArticleSouth Carolina Working Families Party Enters Special U.S. House Election
Source: Ballot Access News On March 21, the Working Families Party of South Carolina held a convention and nominated Elizabeth Colbert Busch (sister of Stephen Colbert) for the special U.S. House...
View ArticleNew York Bill, Mandating an Easier-to-Read Ballot, Moves Ahead
Source: Ballot Access News On February 21, New York Assembly bill 204, the “ballot-friendly act”, was placed on third reading in the Assembly. It had passed the Assembly Election Law Committee on...
View ArticleWorking Families Party May Contest City Council Elections in Philadelphia
Source: Ballot Access News Leaders of the Working Families Party are mulling over contesting the Phildelphia, Pennsylvania city-council at-large seats. Generally the Working Families Party doesn’t...
View ArticleWorking Families Party, and Conservative Party, Support Retention of New...
Source: Ballot Access News Since 1947, New York state has restricted the ability of outsider candidates to run in party primaries. Outsiders can run in a party primary, but only if party leaders...
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