Jon Barrie is the U.S. Senate nominee of the Independent American Party of New Mexico. On June 26, he filed 10,279 signatures to be on the November ballot. New Mexico is the only state that requires qualified parties to submit petitions for their nominees (notice this is not the same thing as states that requires candidates to file signatures to appear on a primary ballot; those people aren’t nominees until they have won the primary). So even though the Independent American Party had already filed one petition earlier this year to become ballot-qualified, the law required an entirely separate petition for Barrie.
Barrie will be the first person on the November ballot to run for U.S. Senate in New Mexico, other than Democratic and Republican nominees, since 1996. Thanks to Stephen Dolgos for this news.
Barrie needed 6,018 – this is an extraordinary development. I met Jon and his fledgling crew very early on in the process, and had some reservations … I’m delighted I was proven wrong. This is remarkable breakthrough for 3rd parties – in NM and elsewhere. Voters are thirsty for authentic, creative parties and candidates in 2012.
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