According to this story, the Justice Party has already started petitioning for party status in Utah. The law requires 2,000 valid signatures by February 15. Parties that are already ballot-qualified in Utah, besides the two major parties, are Americans Elect, Constitution, and Libertarian.
On January 13, Rocky Anderson accepted the presidential nomination of the Justice Party, at a public meeting held on the campus of the University of Utah.
Any word on a running mate?
#1, good question! I hadn’t thought about that.
Probably if there were a v-p running mate now, we would have heard about it.
Almost every state in which it is likely that the Justice Party would use a candidate petition in, permits stand-ins for vice-president. John B. Anderson pioneered that successfully in 1980. So the Justice Party doesn’t need a v-p yet, and can petition with v-p stand-ins.
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There may exist advantages to running as many vice presidential candidates as possible.
Overall concept would be to instruct electors to vote for a Justice Party vice presidential candidate that polled well and then selected by rival partisan committees after the presidential election using a featured voting system such as single transferrable vote. This is political inclusion.
Presidential campaign would help as vetting devise and campaign survives a controversial pick more easily.
Other advantages are multiple use of favorite son/daughter candidacies,demonstration of wide appeal, outreach to several important constituentcies. There are also campaign finance opportunities in a very adverse finance era.
Explaining the tactic is the best part as it relates directly to the subject of the Electoral College and in turn, constitutional political/electoral reform.
What does the Justice Party stand for or want to do with itself? I have not heard much about them in the upper Midwest.
(Please do not claim that they stand for ‘justice’.)
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