The Hawaii Office of Elections has determined that the Green Party petition has enough valid signatures. As a result, the Green Party is now safely on the ballot in Hawaii for 2012 through 2022. Hawaii says when a party has been on the ballot in three elections in a row, it is then automatically on the ballot for the next ten years.
Recently, Hawaii rejected the Constitution Party petition, and the Justice Party petition, for not having enough valid signatures. It is possible one or both parties will sue to overturn the February 2012 petition deadline. In 1986, a U.S. District Court in Hawaii enjoined the petition deadline for newly-qualifying parties, in a case brought by the Libertarian Party. At the time the law required the petition to be submitted at least 150 days before the primary.
Since then, the deadline has been made even earlier, 170 days before the primary.
How many signitures as the hawaii one short for the constitution party?
About 150.
They must had a low certification rate. I was told they were going to turn in a higher amount.
Every petition always has a terrible certification rate in Hawaii. The state throws out signatures if the wrong type of address is listed. It throws out signatures on the grounds that the signature is illegible, even in cases when the signature can be identified by the other information. Hawaii requires either the birthday or the last four digits of the Social Security number on petitions, but then won’t use that information to help identify the names written with bad handwriting.
Hawaii doesn’t have the initiative or referendum, and candidates only need 15 or 25 signatures to get on a primary ballot, so the only groups that suffer from this bad verification policy are minor parties and independent presidential candidates. No independent presidential petition in Hawaii has succeeded since 1992.
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This can only be great news right? In America where big business rules the government.