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Gary Johnson and Jill Stein to participate in foreign policy debate

On Tuesday, Free and Equal sponsored a presidential debate without the exclusionary entrance requirements of the Commission on Presidential Debates. At the end of the debate, Christina Tobin, the founder and chair of Free and Equal, announced an online instant-runoff vote between the four candidates who participated in the debate, which closed on Wednesday night at 10:30 p.m. EDT, with the top two candidates moving on to another debate.

Mrs. Tobin announced on Thursday that Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and Green nominee Jill Stein were the winners of the vote. The result of the first round of instant runoff voting was 26,187 votes for Johnson, 15,013 votes for Stein, 3,938 votes for Justice Party nominee Rocky Anderson, and 2,698 votes for Constitution Party nominee Virgil Goode. Therefore, Goode was eliminated, and the people who chose him as their first choice had their second choice counted in the next round. The second round result was 28,149 for Johnson, 15,305 for Stein, and 4,382 for Anderson. Therefore, Anderson was eliminated, leaving Johnson and Stein as the winners of the vote.

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The debate will occur on Monday, November 5 at 9:00-10:30 p.m. EDT at the RT America studio in Washington, DC. RT America will broadcast the debate. The moderator will be announced on October 29. This debate is expected to be the final presidential debate of the 2012 election season, and the topic will be international issues. The debate was originally scheduled for Tuesday, October 30, but was postponed due to Hurricane Sandy.

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