The United Independent Party is ballot-qualified in Massachusetts. However, since it doesn’t expect to run a presidential candidate in 2016, and because President is the only statewide office on the ballot in 2016 in Massachusetts, the party will lose its qualified status in November 2016 unless it has registration membership of 1% of the number of registered voters.
According to this story, the party has 2,300 registered members, and needs about 43,000 by November 2016. The party’s registration drive began in December 2014.
http://www.craigheadso.org/roster_custom.php
Jacobs, Andrew Stephen
W / M / 42 years
West Fargo, ND
Arrested: 4/23/2015 2:17:00 PM
Charges
DISORDERLY CONDUCT
Andy was released, he told me the disorderly conduct and some other charge were dropped, and only a resisting arrest charge is still pending. He has a court hearing on Monday. He was ordered off campus for petitioning, which is illegal. He said he would leave but would call his attorneys to get their advice and would return if it got cleared up, at which point he was arrested.
What kind of petition was he working on? I assume an initiative petition.
Libertarian ballot access in Arkansas
He was also giving out voter registration forms as well.
Back to the Mass. United Independence Party – – –
It seems like it would be easier for them to just run someone for President! If not wishing to bother with finding Pres. and Veep candidates of their own, they could endorse and give that line of theirs to some national third party that is not qualified for the Mass. ballot.
It is extraordinarily difficult for any party, other than the Dems and Reps, to ever get 3% for president. The only third parties that have polled as much as 3% for president in the last 90 years have been the American Independent Party of 1968 and the Reform Party of 1996. It would be far easier for the United Independent Party to get 43,000 registrants than to get 3% for president.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS4aiA17YsM
http://www.birtherreport.com/2015/04/fec-obama-ineligibility-litigant-chris.html
http://www.fec.gov/fecviewer/CandidateCommitteeDetail.do
I thought this guy who has a million dollars to spend, must not be spending too much of it on registrations. Couldn’t he get a copy of the names and addresses of voters who are not registered with any party, and approach these people. You get what you pay for. He has got to pay the signatures gatherers at last $10 an hour to go door to door – or call these people on the phone. At the rate he is going, he will not make it on the ballot by 2016. Obviously he is not very well known, as a man with a “segregationist” position was able to get the needed signatures in 1968. What is the difference? Have the people of Massachusetts gone so far left, that there is no hope for a conservative to get on the ballot
$10 an hour? LOL no. Try $10 per registration.
If I make less than $50 an hour it’s not really worth my time.
This is not 1968, just getting a motel and eating out every meal just by itself can easily run me $100-150 each and every day. Granted I don’t eat in fast food restaurants, and tend to have a few drinks with my meals. The motels I get are not usually any kind of fancy hotels (although I do eat in those fairly frequently) but not the worst crapholes in town either – usually a chain such as Travelodge, Days Inn, Motel 6, Super 8 or something of that nature.
And door to door is slow. There’s really only a couple of good hours between when most people get home from work and when some people start putting the kids to bed. And during that time you are liable to be interrupting them in the middle of supper. Weekends are better, but even so, that doesn’t really add up to anything like a full work week even if you work all seven days.
$10 an hour? That must be pre-inflation 1968 pay rates 🙂 But it’s not 1968 anymore and prices are way different now, so pay has to keep up. $10 an hour these days is a pay rate usually reserved for teenagers, high school dropouts who haven’t picked up a valuable labor skill or started a successful business, college students working part time (and even then they usually want a job with tips on top of the hourly rate), and recent immigrants.
Even a fast food meal nowadays can easily run $10 if you get a soda with it, depending on where you are. One pack of cigarettes can be more than $10 some places. There are bars that will charge you $10 for a beer. Like I said, it’s not 1968 anymore.
Falchuk isn’t really a conservative. More of a centrist. But it really doesn’t matter for registration purposes.
And yes, he can easily afford it. I guess he just doesn’t want to spend enough to get it done, at least so far.