Thanks to Ballot Access News for this post.
In 2006, a group of seasoned campaign professionals, including both Republicans and Democrats, proposed to create a “third force” in the 2008 presidential election which would be centrist. The group called itself Unity08, and proposed an on-line “national presidential primary” to choose an independent presidential candidate, who might very well be a member of one of the two major parties, but who would run in the general election independently of the two major parties. The rules also said that the vice-presidential nominee should not be of the same party affiliation as the group’s presidential nominee.
The group proposed to handle ballot access for its future ticket by qualifying Unity08 as a qualified party in most of the states. The group actually qualified itself as a party in Florida and Mississippi, but made no further headway because the Federal Election Commission ruled that no one could give Unity08 more than $5,000. This made it impossible for the group to raise enough money to carry on more ballot access work. That hostile FEC ruling was upheld by a U.S. District Court on October 16, 2008, but it was reversed by the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, on March 2, 2010. Now some of the founders of Unity08, along with new backers, plans to put the plan into operation for 2012.
I was a member of Unity08. To find out move use the abover link.
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Americans Elect has been privately active for more than half a year, gaining ballot access for a presidential bid without involving Americans in grassroots activity or even sharing with Americans what its plan or standards are. It remains to be seen what Americans Elect plans. But unlike Unity08, it has a lot of cash -- at this point, all from very wealthy one man.
See http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/category/americanselect/ for a lot of details on this.
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