Another challenge for the Open Elections/Open Government Act in Arizona arose today, as Maricopa County officials announced a review of petition signatures of voters from the county may not provide the number “sufficient to qualify” the measure for November’s ballot.
With both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions taking place in the coming weeks, it begs the question, is it much ado about nothing? From an independent perspective, the partisan conventions can seem like a gigantic echo chamber.
Arizona’s Supreme Court today reversed a previous Superior Court ruling which struck the Open Elections/Open Government Act from November’s general election ballot.
An independent win against a long time incumbent would garner huge press attention, and Bloomfield hopes, the imagination of independently-minded people in other states.
Bill Hillsman, author of Run the Other Way: Fixing the Two-Party System, One Race at a Time, offers his insight as to the implications of debate inclusion for independent candidates.
Interview on independent political organizing with Bill Hillsman, founder of Independent Voters of America and author of Run the Other Way: Fixing the Two-Party System, One Race at a Time.
In her new book, Independents Rising, Jacqueline Salit breaks down the successes and failures of over 20 years of the independent political movement.
