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Supreme Court leaves Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein off the ballot in Nevada
Read full article: Supreme Court leaves Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein off the ballot in NevadaThe Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from Nevada’s Green Party seeking to include presidential candidate Jill Stein on the ballot in the battleground state.
Green Party’s Jill Stein will remain on Wisconsin ballot after court refuses to hear challenge
Read full article: Green Party’s Jill Stein will remain on Wisconsin ballot after court refuses to hear challengeGreen Party presidential candidate Jill Stein will remain on the ballot in Wisconsin after the state Supreme Court decided not to hear a Democratic challenge seeking to oust her.
Georgia officials say Kennedy, 2 others have signatures for presidential ballot as disputes remain
Read full article: Georgia officials say Kennedy, 2 others have signatures for presidential ballot as disputes remainThree independent and third-party candidates got one step closer to appearing on Georgia’s presidential ballot on Tuesday.
Mexico's small, oft-questioned Green Party to become the second-largest force in Congress
Read full article: Mexico's small, oft-questioned Green Party to become the second-largest force in CongressIt's been a long strange trip for Mexico's Ecologist Green Party, which rode on its alliance with the ruling Morena party to become the second-largest voting block in Congress.
France's leftist alliance leaders vow to 'extinguish the flame' of far right in upcoming elections
Read full article: France's leftist alliance leaders vow to 'extinguish the flame' of far right in upcoming electionsLeaders of France’s new leftist alliance have warned that the far right is “at the door of power.”.
The UK Green Party struggles to be heard in an election where climate change is on the back burner
Read full article: The UK Green Party struggles to be heard in an election where climate change is on the back burnerThere’s lots of talk of change in Britain’s election campaign, but little talk about climate change.
Jill Stein launches a long-shot Green Party presidential campaign, bringing back memories of 2016
Read full article: Jill Stein launches a long-shot Green Party presidential campaign, bringing back memories of 2016Environmental activist Jill Stein is launching another long-shot Green Party bid for the presidency.
How third-party and independent candidates could threaten Democrats and Republicans in 2024
Read full article: How third-party and independent candidates could threaten Democrats and Republicans in 2024Two political outsiders have taken steps to launch independent or third-party presidential bids over the past week.
Progressive activist Cornel West leaves the Green Party and will run for president as an independent
Read full article: Progressive activist Cornel West leaves the Green Party and will run for president as an independentProgressive activist Cornel West will run for president in 2024 as an independent, not as a member of the Green Party.
No Labels gains Arizona 2024 ballot spot, could play spoiler
Read full article: No Labels gains Arizona 2024 ballot spot, could play spoilerA group that has pledged to create a pathway for an alternative candidate to run against the Republican and Democratic presidential nominees in 2024 will get a spot on the ballot in Arizona.
Canton Township rejects former state senator’s demand for information on election machines
Read full article: Canton Township rejects former state senator’s demand for information on election machinesA local township says “No” to a conspiracy theorist’s request for sensitive information straight from the election machines.
Climate change tops agenda as Iceland heads to elections
Read full article: Climate change tops agenda as Iceland heads to electionsClimate change is top of the agenda when voters in Iceland head to the polls for general elections on Saturday, following an exceptionally warm summer and an election campaign defined by a wide-reaching debate on global warming.
Bitcoin millionaire puts money on Greens in German election
Read full article: Bitcoin millionaire puts money on Greens in German electionA German software developer who made a fortune from bitcoin has given the environmentalist Green Party one of the biggest political donations in the country’s history.
Third parties could play a lesser role in 2020 campaign
Read full article: Third parties could play a lesser role in 2020 campaignJOHNSTOWN, Pa. – In close elections, it doesn't take much for third-party candidates to play an outsize role — as Democrats learned the hard way in 2016. A vital third-party candidate would likely help him tremendously.”But third-party candidates are facing hurdles that didn't exist four years ago, potentially weakening their impact. In a court decision last week, the Green Party candidate was barred from appearing on Pennsylvania’s ballot. “I saw last time, there’s no hope in a third-party candidate in this basically two-party system that we have. But the president’s team, which has denied playing a role in West’s bid, has done little game-planning for a third-party candidate.
Pennsylvania Democrats notch key election-related court wins
Read full article: Pennsylvania Democrats notch key election-related court winsThe state Supreme Court, which has a 5-2 Democratic majority, granted the Democratic Party’s request to order an extension of Pennsylvania’s Election Day deadline to count mailed-in ballots. The rulings came amid a flurry of partisan lawsuits and a partisan stalemate over fixing gray areas and glitches exposed during a test-run of Pennsylvania's mail-in voting law during June 2's primary election. Losing Pennsylvania could prove fatal to Biden’s chances of defeating Trump: No Democrat has won the presidency without winning Pennsylvania since Harry S. Truman in 1948. Democrats and liberal groups cheered the court's decisions on the mail-in voting law. Mail-in voting will help “protect our right to vote in the most critical election of our lifetimes," NextGen Pennsylvania said.
Green Party candidate is ordered off Pennsylvania ballot
Read full article: Green Party candidate is ordered off Pennsylvania ballotThe court’s two Republicans agreed the Green Party did not meet the law's requirements, but, in a dissenting opinion, said it might be possible to allow the Green Party to fix it retroactively. In this case, Democratic party activists challenged what they said were disqualifying irregularities in how the Green Party filed affidavits for the presidential candidate that is supposed to accompany paperwork with at least 5,000 voter signatures to get on the ballot. Initially, Green Party officials faxed in an affidavit of candidacy for a placeholder candidate — under whose nominal candidacy the party gathered the signatures — by the Aug. 3 deadline. “And the court said, fax is not good enough,” said Larry Otter, the lawyer handling the case for the Green Party. Because the placeholder candidate didn't properly submit the affidavit, Hawkins' affidavit is nullified, the majority opinion said.
Flashpoint 12/4/16: Michigan recount, Trump so far, weed wars
Read full article: Flashpoint 12/4/16: Michigan recount, Trump so far, weed warsDETROIT This week on Flashpoint (watch episode above):It's been almost four weeks since we cast our ballots at the polls. Surely, team Trump doesn't think so, though their refusal to endorse the results before the election doesn't help their argument now. We'll talk about that this morning, and we'll rundown what we've seen so far of the Trump administration. More than half of the states now recognize marijuana as medicine, and of course that includes Michigan. My guest this morning is the new face of marijuana legalization in Michigan.