Earlier this month, the Nevada Green Party turned in signatures so that its gubernatorial candidate, David Scott Curtis, can be on the November 2010 ballot as a Green Party nominee.

Nevada has a very strange procedure for parties to get on the ballot. The party can submit a petition of 1% of the last vote cast, by June of an election year. That petition for 2010 requires 9,083 signatures,.

But, Nevada also has an alternate procedure by which a party can qualify just a single candidate for statewide office (not counting President) with just 250 signatures, and the party label will be printed on the ballot. But that petition is due in early February. The Green Party used that procedure. If Curtis gets 1% of the vote, the party will be back on the ballot for 2012 and won’t need to petition in 2012.