Committee: Vote David Walker for President First. You’ll get his Policy Ideas later.

The campaign to Draft David Walker for President is an awfully strange one in many ways, right down to David Walker himself making an appearance on national TV to declare that he wasn’t running for president, and he wasn’t encouraging …

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Americans Elect delists Nick Troiano, adds 3 New Members to its Board of Advisors

With a revision made public today, these are the three new members of the Americans Elect Board of Advisors, with details exactly as listed by Americans Elect: Alice Finn CEO, PowerHouse Assets, LLC Michael J. Horvitz Jerry Jasinowski The Former …

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Halderman offers Free Course on Electronic Voting

By September 3 2012, the apparently abortive online nominating voting via Americans Elect will have concluded. With hidden votes already happening and the secret ballot done away with, it will be a time for reflection on the future of internet …

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5 Big Media Mentions get David Walker for President 31 more Votes

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How does one Americans Elect draft committee called “The Committee to Get Walker Running,” representing a Americans Elect presidential candidate named David Walker, manage to get 5 big media mentions in one day (#1 | #2 | #3 | #4 …

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Committee to Get Walker Running Supporters connected to Americans Elect and Concord Coalition

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The Committee to Get Walker Running, a group trying to kick start a Draft David Walker for President campaign, has 10 public supporters on the morning of April 21 2012. This count comes from a causes.com web page prominently linked …

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David Walker for President: The People, The Connections

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Five names have emerged in the leadership of The Committee to Get Walker Running, an entity at draftwalker.com that yesterday morning was nothing but a splash page… …but which by yesterday afternoon was being used to vigorously (and with non-disclosed …

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Americans Elect Rapid Response Team and Americans Elect Twitter Day

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Look at this website; it’s called AEvolunteers.com: The website, which appears on google search, is working off a server in Santa Rosa and has cloaked its registrant with a privacy barrier, but is using the latest Americans Elect logos and …

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Buddy Roemer Won’t Be the Arithmetic President

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One of Buddy Roemer’s latest tweets sounds fairly optimistic for a presidential candidate who has been working to get people to vote for him on Americans Elect for three months and who has less than a month to go: Thing …

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Unity08 All Over Again: Americans Elect Leader Steps Down to Start Draft David Walker Campaign

When it became clear that despite its money and inside connections Unity08 was not attracting popular support, its two chief leaders abandoned their pretense to not having a preferred presidential candidate and stepped down from Unity08 to start the Draft …

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A Weak Week in Votes and Tweets for Americans Elect

As AE Transparency notes, another week has passed during which the Americans Elect presidential contenders have failed to attract enough supporters to qualify for the May 8 Americans Elect presidential primary ballot — the nation’s first-ever privatized all-online presidential nomination …

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Centrist? Billionaire Michael Bloomberg Says a Living Wage for Workers is Downright Soviet

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When groups like Americans Elect refer to the “sensible center” while drawing up lists of names of acceptable presidential contenders — names like Evan Bayh, Erskine Bowles, Tim Pawlenty, Mitch Daniels, David Walker and Michael Bloomberg — they’re appealing to …

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Presidential Candidate Jill Stein Stands Against Americans Elect

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Today, Jill Stein, the strong front runner in the 2012 Green Party presidential
primary, released the following statement, in which she pledges to abstain from all involvement in the Americans Elect political party.

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Americans Elect Leaders Can’t Stop Themselves from Weighing in on the Presidential Race

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Americans Elect has a neutrality policy for itself as a collectivity and for its directors, officers and paid staff. FAQ: Does Americans Elect support any candidate? No. Americans Elect, its directors, officers, and paid staff do not and will not …

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Americans Elect Quietly Upgrades Candidate Status of David Walker, from Outsider to Insider

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In the last week, Americans Elect has quietly gone out of its way to change the ballot access terms for David Walker, a presidential candidate about whom Americans Elect has written glowingly and who also sits on its Board of Advisors. Why has Americans Elect gone to this trouble? Nobody knows.

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Draft Donald Trump for President? After 2 months, it’s Snooki Plus 97

I don’t know if you can believe anything Snooki says, but apparently she wants Donald Trump to run for President in 2012. If she really is one of them, the problem is that only 97 other people in America seem …

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Americans Elect Says One Thing, Does Another Episode #472: The Lobbyist Hokey Pokey

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Americans Elect used to say it didn’t have any ideology and just wanted to help Americans resurrect democracy as they saw fit. Then Americans Elect squelched turnout in its first two delegate votes and its Political Director revealed Americans Elect …

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Americans Elect Presidential Candidates Fall Further Away from Easy Ballot Access Threshold

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For a serious presidential candidate with real grassroots support, it wouldn’t be that hard to qualify for the Americans Elect presidential ballot. 1,000 signatures in each of 10 states for insiders? Even without a dime, Howard Dean’s supporters could have …

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Buddy Roemer Buying Votes in the Americans Elect Presidential Nomination With “Swag”

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Just when you thought the Americans Elect circus couldn’t get any more zany… … Even though he’s the frontrunner among Americans Elect declared candidates, Buddy Roemer is far from getting enough “support” votes to actually make it onto the ballot. …

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