On November 1, Americans Elect submitted its petition to be on the Arkansas ballot in 2012, for President only. Arkansas requires 1,000 signatures for parties that only want to be on the ballot for President, and 10,000 for parties that want ballot status for all office. Americans Elect turned in 2,900 signatures.
And the beat goes on…
If AE gets 10000+ votes from Arkansas will it qualify for all offices in 2014?
#2, if Americans Elect’s presidential nominee gets 3% of the vote, then Americans Elect will be fully-qualified for all partisan offices in 2014, with its own primary. We know this is true because of the 1992 precedent, when Arkansas Secretary of State recognized that Ross Perot’s vote as the nominee of the “Independent Party” (which was not a qualified party in 1992) did create a new ballot-qualified party in 1994.
Has anyone formally expressed interest in running for the Americans Elect nomination? I’m not talking necessarily about famous potential candidates, but there are always a bunch of obscure independent candidates and I’d expect that one or more of them would at least try to benefit from the AE’s ballot access.
Any Monarchy Party yet ???
One plank Platform — ALL power to the Monarch-in-Chief ???