Although Americans Elect has no nominees for state legislature, a former community organizer for Americans Elect is an independent candidate for State House in Maine. He is Christopher Kessler, running in the 122nd district in South Portland. He was a community organizer for Americans Elect in 2011 and the first part of 2012. See this newspaper summary of each of the three candidates in that race.
Americans Elect does have two nominees for Congress in Arizona, and is expected to be on the ballot in 2014 in ten to twelve states, despite its lack of nominees for any statewide office in any state this year.
The Arizona Americans Elect Party endorses Chris Keller. If he loses, he should move to Arizona and run as an Americans Elect candidate in 2014.
Which 10 or 12 states would they retain ballot access in without running?
Arizona, California if Americans Elect can get its registration up to about 11,000 by January 2014, Florida, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, New Mexico, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wisconsin.
In Florida and Vermont, Americans Elect must continue to have party officers, and in Florida it must make campaign finance reports every few months.
How are people still able to run for political office when people can’t log in to the Americans Elect site?
-Tothian