Articles by Taylor Tyler

A new groundbreaking poll released by Quinnipiac University found that a whopping 62 percent of likely American voters believe that Libertarian presidential candidate and former two-term New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson should be included alongside Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton in the upcoming presidential debates, which are sanctioned by the Commission on Presidential Debate (CPD). Sixty-two percent is a significant majority, but the Quinnipiac poll results become even m...

Evan Falchuk, the first candidate to run under the newly formed United Independent Party (UIP) in Massachusetts, knew when he started campaigning that he had little chance of becoming the next governor. But even though he lost the bid, he still won, as his real accomplishment on Election Day – an accomplishment shared amongst most independent-minded Massachusettsians – was gaining the 3 percent of the vote needed for his party to become officially recognized by the state. He earned 3.3 percent...

It's the same story that independent candidates face across the country: a battle against a mass of special interest groups, accusations of spoiling the race, and laws tailored to the interests of the two-party duopoly. That's exactly where Maine's independent gubernatorial candidate, Eliot Cutler, currently finds himself. “I don't take money from special interest PACs or political parties,” Cutler said in an interview for IVN. “I want to be a governor who is un-bought, un-bossed, and free to ...

To say that our current voting system is plagued with problems would be an extreme understatement. We currently have to deal with insecure, hackable voting machines, a lack of transparency, voter fraud, inept polling center volunteers misplacing millions of votes, billion-dollar election administration costs, and other polling center issues that can discourage large percentages of people from voting. Perhaps the most shocking issue is the number of vulnerabilities present in many voting machin...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll0zyMTN8Og Does Santa meet FAA regulations? Shouldn't we break up his viscous monopoly on Christmas? These are questions being asked by the creators of the new satirical animated Christmas movie, Uncle SAMta, which hopes to provide a comedic, yet truthful look at the economy -- offering something to all ages as an aspiring Christmas classic for years to come. With a tentative release date of November 2015, co-creator AJ Viviani said the script is almost finished...

Two big announcements came out of independent Evan Falchuk's camp on Monday: he became the first gubernatorial candidate to officially qualify for the November ballot in Massachusetts, and he plans to spend at least $360,000 on his initial TV and radio advertisement campaign. While only 10,000 signatures are required to be submitted before the August 26 deadline, Falchuk, who founded the United Independent Party, said his team collected more than 17,000 signatures -- all without the help of pai...

High overhead costs, an increasing amount of red tape, unnecessary middlemen, and Obamacare prompted Dr. Michael Ciampi to stop accepting all forms of private and government insurance last April, which has allowed him to cut his prices in half. Ciampi, who operates a family practice in Portland, Maine, was able to reduce the cost of a regular office visit for an issue of moderate complexity from $160 to $75. And, if a patient has a single straight forward issue such as the flu or an infection, ...

The Kentucky group of independents known as Independent Kentucky has fought for fair representation in the state since 2008. By focusing their efforts on opening the state's primary system, they have made good progress considering the partisan stronghold state Democrats have. For three years in a row, up until 2012, a semi-open primary bill was introduced in Kentucky legislature, which Independent Kentucky Chairman Michael P.W. Lewis says has been their greatest achievement so far.“No one thoug...

Source: Jonathan Lippincott The president's Commission on Election Administration held their final public hearing on September 20 in Cincinnati, Ohio, where five independents from Ohio and Kentucky petitioned the commission for a redress of grievances regarding election issues that independents face across the country. With 40 percent of the electorate registered as independent, it's not a stretch to say that independents are the largest group of suppressed voters in the country. But, whether ...