On January 19, the Arkansas Secretary of State said that the Green Party has enough valid signatures on its petition. 10,000 were needed, and the party had submitted 14,000. Arkansas will now have four ballot-qualified parties on its 2012 ballot. Already on were the Democratic, Republican and Libertarian Parties. This is the first time Arkansas will have had as many as four ballot-qualified parties for all partisan office, since 1971, when the state started requiring petitions for minor party ballot access.
Arkansas has separate procedures for minor parties that only want to be on the ballot for President. That presidential procedure only requires 1,000 signatures. Americans Elect had already qualified for the 2012 Arkansas presidential ballot, and chances are another four or five parties will qualify in Arkansas for President.
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How much did the Elephants give the Green folks to get ballot access ???
Divide and Conquer — precinct by precinct.
Nothing.
They did it on a shoestring budget – truly heroic.
Don’t be a stooge and dupe for the two parties of the 1%
Divide and conquer is what the 1% do to the rest of us through the two parties they control (Democrats and Republicans) that serve the same corporate masters.
Yes, the spoiler issue is real and probably why (at least in the past) conservatives have helped get Green party candidates on the ballot (or why Democrats had tried to push the Greens off the ballot).
It would be much better — IMHO — to look at cross-party endorsements and Instant Runoff Voting.
Arkansas Greens have done it on their own 4 elections in a row
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