ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University's Mock Election student group presents the 2004 Third Party Presidential Debate on Oct. 6 at 8 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall on the Cornell campus. The debate will feature Green Party candidate David Cobb, Socialist Party candidate Walt Brown, Libertarian Party candidate Michael Badnarik and Constitution Party candidate Michael Peroutka.

Candidate Ralph Nader declined the Mock Election group's invitation.

Tickets are free. Tickets for Cornell students showing identification are available now at the Willard Straight Hall box office. Tickets for the general public will be available Sept. 29, also at the Straight box office.

The participating candidates are:

• Michael J. Badnarik, Libertarian Party, of Austin, Texas. He is a senior trainer and consultant with Evolutionary Technologies International. He has been a programmer with Pacific Gas and Electric and a systems analyst with Northrop Corp. He attended Indiana University.
• Walt Brown, Socialist Party, of Lake Oswego, Ore. He is a volunteer attorney with the Consumer Justice Alliance, and he has been general counsel for the Oregon Consumer League. He was a judge advocate general in the U.S. Navy from 1952 to 1970, and he was an associate professor of law at the Northwestern School of Law, Lewis & Clark College. Brown received his bachelor's degree from the University of Southern California School of Letters and his J.D. from the University of Southern California School of Law.
• David Cobb, Green Party, of Houston. He is a public interest attorney with the Community Environmental Defense Fund, and he has been general counsel for the Green Party National Committee. Cobb earned his bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Houston and his J.D. degree from the University of Houston Law Center.
• Michael A. Peroutka, Constitution Party, of Millersville, Md. He serves as chairman of the Constitution Party. He received his bachelor's degree from Loyola University in Baltimore and his J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law.