On June 6, Joy Ballard, who was elected to a partisan county office in Saline County, Arkansas, as a Green Party nominee, announced she is switching to the Republican Party. See this story.
On June 6, Joy Ballard, who was elected to a partisan county office in Saline County, Arkansas, as a Green Party nominee, announced she is switching to the Republican Party. See this story.
Well you don’t see that very often. Interesting.
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The previous officeholder resigned after the Republican and Democratic parties had held their nominating conventions. Because the Green Party qualified late, they could still nominate. Everyone else ran as a write-in candidate.