On July 6, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon signed HB 1236. The bill deletes the requirement that a petition to place a newly-qualifying party on the ballot must list that group’s presidential nominee, and must also list the group’s candidates for presidential elector.
Missouri’s law had been quite irrational, until this bill was signed. The old law did not require the group’s nominees for office other than president and presidential elector to be listed on the petition. The old law was the product of a drafting error made back in 1993.
If this new law had been in effect earlier this year, it would have been helpful to Americans Elect. Americans Elect collected signatures on a petition in Missouri during 2011, but that petition didn’t list any presidential candidate, nor did it list any presidential elector candidates. Americans Elect never submitted that petition. The new law has no effect on Americans Elect in any event, since back on May 17, Americans Elect said it wouldn’t run a presidential candidate this year. Thanks to Ken Bush for the news about the Governor’s action.
Below here are the 29 presidential and vice presidential candidates that we as candidates have elected and that we’re still trying to expand.
http://usparliament.org/pdc.php
Tics to elect the PDC (ONLY Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidates May Vote):
Vote Totals for electing the 29 members up to 6/24/2012
5,2,2,3,4,5,2,2,4,2,2,3 James Ogle [Free Parliamentary] (12 tics, sum of 36)
1,3,5,2,2,1,5,3,3,10,3,4 Roseanne Barr [Green Tea] (12 tics, sum of 42)
2,7,9,4,4,3,1,6,9 Miss Joy Waymire [Libertarian] (9 tics, sum of 45)
4,8,3,1,16,8,5,17,13 Tina Cook [Independent] (9 tics, sum of 75)
3,6,8,5,17,11,6,5 Jim Burns [Libertarian] “STANDS DOWN” (8 tics, sum of 61)
7,2,7,9,3,4,10,16,8 Mosheh Thezion [All] (9 tics, sum of 66)
1,6,6,8,6,10,8,11,14 Danny (Dan) Woodring [Independent] (9 tics, sum of 70)
1,9,9,8,7,14,15,12 Mike Levinson [Republican / Independent] (8 tics, sum of 75)
1,7,11,6,2,18,5 Rhett Smith [Green] (7 tics, sum of 50)
1,9,5,12,14,9,10 JL Mealer [Constitution] (7 tics, sum of 60)
1,12,13,14,12,8,6 Max Abramson [Libertarian] (7 tics, sum of 66)
2,10,16,16,9,3,16 R. Lee Wrights [Libertarian] (7 tics, sum of 72)
3,9,17,17,17,4,11 Gary Johnson [Libertarian] (7 tics, sum of 78)
1,13,12,13,11,13 Diane Beall Templin [American Independent] (6 tics, sum of 63)
10,6,1,7,7,15 Ralph Allen Beach [Libertarian] (6 tics, sum of 48)
1,3,4,7,15 David Jon Sponheim “STANDS DOWN” [America’s Third] (5 tics, sum of 30)
2,11,15,7,13 Sam Sloan “STANDS DOWN” [ibertarian] (5 tics, sum of 48)
1,8,14,15,16 Thomas Robert Stevens “STANDS DOWN” [Objectivist] (5 tics, sum of 54)
1,14,17,2 Tiffany Briscoe [Independent] (4 tics, sum of 34)
1,19,14,7 David L Wetzell [LT Party Movement] (4 tics, sum of 41)
1,20,15,12 David Frey [Independent] (4 tics, sum of 48)
18,19,4 Gina Zenzola [Green] (3 tics, sum of 42)
1,15 Joshua-Paul Angell [Communist] (2 tics, sum of 16)
1, 21 Robby Wells [Patroit Natiot] (2 tics, sum of 22)
1 Sam Sloan [Libertarian] (1 tic)
1 Jim Duensing [Boston Tea] (1 tic)
1 Carl Person [Libertarian] (1 tic)
1 Stewart Alexander [Peace & Freedom] (1 tic)
1 Elizabeth Warren [Republican] (1 tic)
1 Mary Okorn-Jimenez [Free Energy] (1 tic)
1 Fred Donald Dickson Jr. [Unaffiliated] (1 tic)
2 Charles Brannan [Independent] (1 tic)
2 David Parker [Free Energy] (1 tic)
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