The Arkansas filing deadline for candidates to file in a primary closed on March 8. Here is the list of candidates for the Republican and Democratic primaries. No Republican filed for three statewide offices: Auditor, Treasurer, and Attorney General.
Independent candidate petitions are not due until May. Petitions for new or previously unqualified parties are not due until July. Newly qualifying parties nominate by convention, not in the May primary.
Richard, Does this mean that a third party can run someone in one of the statewide offices and gain ballot access for his/her party? If so, that can be good. The bad news is that in that state, isn’t the Green party sufferring for doing well in a statewide race and still being denied full access?
The Green Party has a lawsuit pending against the law that says only the vote for Governor/President counts.