On November 15, the Massachusetts Senate passed SB 2414 by a vote of 33-5. It moves the presidential primary from March to February 5. The new deadline for qualified parties to tell the Secretary of State whom to list on those presidential primary ballots becomes December 6, 2007. Massachusetts has 4 ballot-qualified parties: Democratic, Republican, Green, and Working Families.
I’ve looked around a bit, but I haven’t seen any info on whether the Massachusetts Rainbow Greens will hold a presidential primary? And if they are, who, if anyone, has filed?
Individual presidential candidates don’t need to file in Massachusetts. Massachusetts is like California. The state party chair tells the Secretary of State which candidates to list. This is why Nader is on the California presidential primary Green ballot. He hasn’t announced, but in presidential primaries of that type, candidates don’t need to do or say anything to get listed.