Sponsors have been found for bills to ease ballot access barriers in Georgia and Kansas. In Georgia, Representative Dar’shun Kendrick (D-Lithonia) will introduce a bill easing the petition requirements. She is an attorney.

In Kansas, the Green Party believes it has found a sponsor for a bill to lower the party petition from 2% of the last gubernatorial vote, to 1%. The bill will also expand the petitioning period from six months to one year. Except for Americans Elect, no one has successfully qualified as a new party in Kansas since 1998, the year the U.S. Taxpayers Party completed the petition (that party is now known as the Constitution Party, and it went off the ballot in Kansas in 2002).