The Maine Green Party (whose name is the Green Independent Party) has voted to allow independent voters to vote in its primaries, and they need not join the Green Party. See this story. The two major parties in Maine also let independent voters vote in their primaries, but only if they join those parties at the polls on primary election day.
Now that the party has taken this step, it will be in a strong position to argue that independent voters should also be able to sign petitions to get members of the Green Party on the party’s primary ballot. Maine and Massachusetts have the most draconian requirements for members of small qualified parties to get on their own party’s primary ballot. At least Massachusetts lets independents sign such petitions; Maine does not. The Maine Green Party has never been able to nominate any candidates for either house of Congress since it has been a ballot-qualified party, nor has it been able to nominate anyone for Governor in the last two gubernatorial election years.
We are united with the Maine Independent Green Party and their former 7-year chair and current 9th USA Parliament Secretary Benjamin Meiklejohn[Green Independent] is a competent vote counter under pure proportional representation (PR) which helped generate confidence and unity for our team.
The 9th USA Parliament has been using pure proportional representation (PR) and it works fine:
http://www.usparliament.org/
A very smart move on the part of the Maine Green Party.
The Independents are the fastest growing political group in the united States today.
I believe the day will come when there will be a Independent Party, with primaries in all 50 states to nominate its candidates. Petitions gathering will be a thing of the past for Independents.
Independents will range from extreme left to extreme right. Their Independent National Convention will be a “free for all” as you might have a “rightwing” candidate opposing a “leftwing” candidate for the nomination.
I trust I live long enough to see the beginning of the Independent Party.
I am a registered Green Party Member in Kentucky. I plan to be a Congressional candidate in 2016 in Louisville, Jefferson County, KY. I quite agree with Maine’s Green Independent Party philosophy. That gives Green candidates access to the 80% pf voters who are “independents,” what I prefer to call “nonpartisan” voters. With involvement of nonpartisans, Green or other nonpartisan can win public office when voter turnout is above 65% of eligible voters. In that case nonpartisans can elect nonpartisan candidates to public office in every election. The perfect winning political minor candidate strategy would be to attract voters to Green Party nonpartisan candidates. My Green candidacay for Congress openly appeals to nonpartisan voters. I an a nonpartisan Green Party candidate. Non-affiliated voters are a huge majority of the age-eligible voting population. They decide every election and have for decades. We can change the political landscape by our political participation in elections.