Guilford County Commissioner Bruce Davis says he will attempt to qualify as an independent candidate for North Carolina State Senate. See this story. Guilford County is North Carolina’s third most populous county, and includes Greensboro.

Davis needs a petition signed by 4% of the registered voters of his district. The story says he needs 5,000 signatures, but does not say if this is the legal requirement, or the number that he realistically needs to collect. If he gets on the ballot and wins, he will be the first person elected to the North Carolina Senate, who was not a Democratic or Republican Party nominee, since 1900, when the Peoples Party elected three Senators.