Noah Dyer is an independent candidate for Governor of Arizona. The independent petition requirement in Arizona is severe; it requires 37,890 signatures. The only other states that require more signatures in 2018 for a statewide independent are Georgia, Nebraska, and Texas. Dyer’s campaign web page includes a section soliciting individuals to become paid petitioners for him. He is paying 75 cents per signature.
Rocky De La Fuente has a federal lawsuit arguing that the number of signatures for a statewide independent is unconstitutional, because the state requires substantially fewer signatures for a new party. The new party petition this year is 23,041.
I bet that he will have a difficult time finding people who are willing to gather petition signatures for him for .75 cents. That is chump change.
The United Coalition is pleased to promote a write-in team, candidates united under pure proportional representation (PPR), one earth.
Not divided into multiple districts, but united at-large, with lowest election thresholds (Bischoff quota) and highest total voter satisfaction levels possible.
http://www.international-parliament.org/ucc.html
Dammit. I was hoping there really was a gubernatorial candidate named “Web Page.” That would have been a hoot.
@TK, perhaps Web Page was named after W.E.B. Du Bois.
According to anywho.com, there is someone named Webb Page who lives in Parkdale, Arkansas.
Candidate Dyer favors eliminating party labels and party nominations, and having a Top 3 or 4 primary.
A bit odd is that he doesn’t encourage webonauts to sign his petition online. Arizona permits half the signatures to be gathered that way.
I don’t think Arizona permits independent candidates to get electronic signatures, but I am not positive.
@Richard Winger,
The signature portal is here:
http://apps.azsos.gov/equal/
It requires an Arizona voter registration. If there is anyone from Arizona, I’d be interested in knowing what happens after you get in.
https://law.justia.com/codes/arizona/2005/title41/00132.html
https://www.azsos.gov/services/public-information/digital-signature-policy-authority
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Signatures_in_Global_and_National_Commerce_Act
Who needs gerrymander hacks any more >>> DIRECT Democracy — FOR ENACTING LAWS ??? !!!
GUARD THOSE *KEYS* — NOW A MATTER OF LIFE OR DEATH — TOTAL SECURITY.
AZ E-NOMINATING PETITIONS FOR CANDIDATES
https://apps.azsos.gov/equal/
https://apps.azsos.gov/apps/election/eps/petition/VoterEPSInfo.aspx
https://apps.azsos.gov/apps/election/eps/petition/VoterPetnAuth.aspx#
https://ballotpedia.org/Electronic_petition_signature
GOOD ENOUGH FOR BIZ —
GOOD ENOUGH FOR DEMOCRACY.
@DR, Find out which candidates have enrolled for 2018.
Apparently NO SOS list of candidates at the moment — see
https://www.azsos.gov/elections/running-office
https://apps.azsos.gov/apps/election/candidateportal/
https://www.azsos.gov/elections/running-office/running-legislative-office
AZ ST Sen/Rep
May ask SOS via—
https://www.azsos.gov/contact/Elections
Many State election websites are a bit ad hoc / minimal
— due to the incumbent gerrymander hacks in State legislatures NOT wanting any competition.
Just part of the ANTI-Democracy ROT in many States — gerrymanders, unequal ballot access, partisan exec/judic officers.
IE — Election website requirements must be a part of that Model Election L-A-W.
The BAN super-data base may have a list of the better / worse State election websites.
37,890 x 100 / 2,537,165 [AZ Prez Nov 2016] = 1.47 PCT —
de facto higher — due to no prez year – less interest in State/local offices
@DR, Does the Arizona SOS web site have a contact e-mail address so you can find the candidates whose petitions can be signed online?
Repeating a bit —
May ask SOS via—
https://www.azsos.gov/contact/Elections
@DR, Will you ask?
No — other folks need to do some election work also.
The load on RW and DR to keep up with the many machinations is a bit high.
Bit early in AZ — AZ SOS still working on number of sigs required in the gerrymander districts.
@DR,
https://www.azsos.gov/about-office/media-center/azsosblog/1342
Noah Dyer is listed. It is not clear when signatures may be collected.
@Andy, It’s very difficult to pay petitioners anything more than $.75 because, as the petition sheets have 10 signing slots on each, that would mean that for every full completed sheet turned in, they would earn $7.50. Paid circulators will usually carry around multiple clipboards around with them (which hold different petitions for different candidates) and can usually make a hefty amount in one day doing so. So keeping the prices cheap is the only way to financially survive, especially because when running as a third party candidate keeps the money pretty tight (on advertising and such).
Also, there is a link on his webpage here: https://noahdyer.com/sign/ where you can digitally sign his petition. Not a lot of people use it, so I don’t think he heavily advertises it.
We need an independent that is not bought and paid for by both parties
People say they are independent but when it comes time to vote the vote for the same two party system I have done that in the past but have voted independent at least 3 times in presidential elections since 1992.