Maine not only requires a newly-qualifying party to submit a petition signed by 5% of the last gubernatorial vote, for full party status; the state also requires the group to then hold a town caucus in each of Maine’s sixteen counties. This article describes plans for the upcoming Americans Elect in South Portland. The expectation is that only two registered party members will attend.
Americans Elect getting it done methodically.
not much of difference but i think the law was recently amended to require only a caucus in 14 of t 16 counties
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Actually to a fledgling organization like AE this is actually probably very important.
#2, the law was recently amended, as you say, to lower the number of counties, but the new law only applies to parties that were already qualified. It is ridiculous but that is the way the new law was written.
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