Independent Voter Podcast: Beyond Partisan Politics discusses why election reform isn’t a sexy news topic, and interviews POLITICO author Eric Geller on his article, "Elections security: Federal help or power grab?”
In an op-ed published in the Washington Post, Gary Johnson says Founding Fathers like James Madison and George Washington were right... a political system dominated by two parties was doomed to failure.
Sacramento, Calif. - The Trump/Pence ticket now has two party nominations in California, the Republicans' and the American Independent Party’s. The ticket under both parties will appear on the same ballot line. This hasn’t happened since 1940 when the California GOP got together with the Townsend Party to nominate Wendell Willkie. Then both parties nominated a common slate of Presidential electors.
What Happens when two Political Parties Nominate the Same Candidate for the First Time Since 1940!
Oops, they did it again! The fabled American Independent Party of California nominated Donald Trump, already nominated by the California Republican Party. So what now? Two ballot lines for the same candidate? Thankfully NO. This dual nomination will be indicated on the Trump/Pence Ticket ballot line by “Republican, American Independent” as the nominating parties.
This article is Part 2 in a two-part series reviewing Supreme Court ballot access decisions and the effects of the Court's precedents on independent and third party candidates. You can read Part 1 here.
The $1.1 billion bill to combat the Zika virus, a mosquito-borne illness causing encephalitis and birth defects, failed to clear the Senate as gridlock-as-usual resumes after the recess.
Senate Democrats forced the issue, by not allowing cloture, because of two added provisions to the bill -- one defunding Planned Parenthood, the other permitting Confederate flags to be flown at military cemeteries.
While no longer operative in the presidential election, the voter rebellion witnessed during the primaries is alive and well. South Dakota is now the epicenter, where Amendment V for Nonpartisan Elections gives voters the chance to reclaim their elections from the political establishment and send a message to Washington.
A circuit judge in Missouri on Friday overturned a primary election result, citing irregularities with absentee ballots. The decision exposed haphazard election practices in St. Louis.
The August 2 Democratic primary for the 78th district of the Missouri House of Representatives resulted in a 90-vote victory for incumbent Penny Hubbard. She defeated challenger Bruce Franks Jr., an activist in Ferguson, Missouri.
In recent years, there have been several top-down attempts to overturn the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United. That decision, made in 2010, birthed legal entities known as super PACs, which can raise and spend unlimited sums of money so long as they do not coordinate with a candidate.
Making an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday, former Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders told host Chuck Todd that he thinks the current polling threshold to gain entry into the presidential debates is too high.