Category: June 2012 Election

List All Candidates for Peace and Freedom Primary

For 36 years, the California Secretary of State has listed the all of the candidates on the ballots for small party presidential primaries. However, in this presidential election, Debra Bowen, California Secretary of State, has excluded two of the Peace and Freedom Party’s four candidates. She also excluded some of the American Independent Party’s candidates from their primary ballot. [Note: an earlier version of this article said “Libertarian Party” rather than “American Independent Party”. We regret the error.]

For more information, see this press release.

We call on Secretary of State Bowen to list all four of our declared presidential candidates–Stephen Durham, Stewart Alexander, Peta Lindsay, and Rocky Anderson–on our primary ballot.

Click here to sign the following petition:


To Secretary of State Debra Bowen: List all the declared candidates for the Peace and Freedom Party presidential nomination--Stephen Durham, Stewart Alexander, Peta Lindsay, and Rocky Anderson--on their primary ballot.

Please sign the petition Click here:

signon.org/sign/bowen-list-all-candidates

Thank you.

Secretary of State List of Presidential Candidates Called “Unlawful”

The following press release and statement were issued by the State Central Committee of the California Peace and Freedom Party on February 8, 2011.

MEDIA RELEASE

February 8, 2012

For further information: C.T. Weber (916) 422-5395
or (916) 320-9186

SECRETARY OF STATE LIST OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
CALLED "UNLAWFUL" AFTER PARTY’S CANDIDATES
LEFT OFF JUNE 5 PRIMARY BALLOT

SACRAMENTO – The Secretary of State’s office has omitted two of the four Presidential candidates on the Peace and Freedom Party’s primary ballot – and the independent party is demanding to know why.

A NEWS CONFERENCE is scheduled at 10 a.m. Thursday (2-9-12) at the SOS office (11th & O Streets) to provide details. Peace and Freedom Party State Chairperson C. T. Weber will be present.

SOS Debra Bowen has yet to respond, and in a statement issued today, Weber cites Elections Code sections that specify how presidential primary candidates are supposed to be selected by the Secretary of State, and suggests that code sections covering other parties may have improperly been applied to the Peace and Freedom Party candidates.

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