Testimony on Third-Party Ballot Access in North Carolina
Below is a copy of my written testimony to the North Carolina House Oversight and Reform Committee on the North Carolina State Board’s recent decision to certify the Constitution and…
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Below is a copy of my written testimony to the North Carolina House Oversight and Reform Committee on the North Carolina State Board’s recent decision to certify the Constitution and…
(Photo of Cornel West by Gage Skidmore.) UPDATE (June 27): The Democratic-controlled North Carolina State Board of Elections voted to deny three parties ballot access. Republican board member Kevin Lewis…
With a new year upon us, let’s see how voter registrations have changed over the past two years. Why look at changes over two years instead of one? The North…
They’re back. The North Carolina Green Party has collected 14,404 valid signatures on its petition to be an official party in North Carolina. That is just over the 13,865 valid…
It finally happened. As seen on the Carolina Elections Voter Registration Changes page, there are no longer any Constitution or Green Party registrations on the voter rolls in North Carolina.…
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online on a proposed “sore loser” law that would block the Constitution Party and other groups from fielding general-election candidates who lose in major-party…
Three third-party political groups are happy to see the N.C. General Assembly override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of Senate Bill 656. The leaders of North Carolina’s Libertarian, Green, and Constitution…
Stay warm! • Former Commerce Secretary Keith Crisco, who’s running for the 2nd Congressional District nomination as a Democrat, releases a biographical campaign video in which he promises to serve…
A clear pattern of Ron Paul’s campaign is that his staunchest critics are self-proclaimed conservatives and GOP spokesmen. This is ironic and unfortunate, because Paul, according to the American Journal…
House Majority Leader Paul Stam, R-Wake, put into words the essence of this session’s legislative effort to open up the election process to more voices by reducing the barriers for…
11:52 Final update: John Kasich elected governor of Ohio. I covered him when working in Washington in the 1990s. A very sharp fellow who never let you forget that his…
Comedy obliges me to post the following e-mail (although decorum obliges me to edit out the vulgarities): Mr. Sanders I have never heard of you,but here I am a 62…