Independent Parties Join Forces to End Two-Party Hold on Presidential Elections

The United Independent Party of Massachusetts has reached an agreement in principle to join with the Independent Party of Oregon and the Independence Party of Minnesota as a Co-Founder of a coalition of moderate and centrist Third Parties. The parties will convene a national conference or teleconference in August to discuss the joint nomination of a candidate for President.

The focus on Presidential politics represents a significant shift for all three parties, which have tended to focus on Local and State-level elections. “People are tired of being snookered by the two party system and shocked by the depths to which political conversation has sunk,” said UIP Founder and Chairman Evan Falchuk. “Now more than ever, we need a strong national movement for a sensible alternative to the endless nonsense. We are proud to join our friends in Oregon and Minnesota in this common cause and look forward to giving voters across the country real choices and serious alternatives.”

“We are delighted to add the United Independent Party of Massachusetts to the coalition,” noted Phil Fuehrer, State Chair of the Minnesota Independence Party. “Over the summer, we will continue to add member states and provide voters a competitive option to the two party duopoly.”

“We are working hard to build a national coalition of parties to support a national Independent reform movement as an alternative to the Democrats and Republicans. The addition of the Massachusetts United Independent Party to the coalition is a significant step in the evolution of independent transpartisan politics that is starting to shake up our political system,” said Rob Harris. “We are going to see more parties joining this movement as we move forward.”

These three states together account for 28 electoral votes. The coalition now includes parties from the East coast, the West coast and the Midwest. The coalition partners are all moderate political parties who share a focus on local good Government and Election and Campaign Finance reform.











NYC Wins When Everyone Can Vote! Michael H. Drucker

United Independent Party of Massachusetts

With 100 percent of precincts reporting, independent gubernatorial candidate Evan Falchuk has earned 3.3 percent of the vote in the November 4 race for Governor of Massachusetts, more than the three percent required by state law for the United Independent Party he founded to become an official party in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

The milestone means that the United Independent Party, dedicated to a greater diversity of progressive ideas combined with fiscally sane solutions, is taking its place alongside the Democratic and Republican parties, and as such will have equal election and fundraising laws and requirements.  Already the new party is gearing up to run candidates for office throughout Massachusetts in the 2016 elections.

At 53 percent, Massachusetts has the nation’s highest percentage of independent voters in the nation, “unenrolled” voters in Massachusetts, yet does not have one independent lawmaker, Falchuk noted.  Further, a whopping 109 seats of the state legislature’s 200 seats faced no opposition this year.

It will go off the ballot in November 2016 unless it polls 3% in that election as well, and the only statewide offices up in 2016 in Massachusetts is President.

However, the party can also remain ballot-qualified if its statewide registration rises to 1% of the state total.  The party is already starting to work on its registration drive.  The 1% registration alternative to obtaining or retaining party status has only existed since 1991, and it has never been used.

It will need approximately 45,000 signatures.

CLICK HERE for more information about the United Independent Party.










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