The Arizona Green Party has begun petitioning to get back on the ballot for the 2020 election. It needs 31,685 signatures by February 28, 2020. This is the highest number of signatures that Arizona has ever required for new parties; the number is high because turnout was so strong in November 2018. If the party succeeds, this will be the most difficult petition requirement that the Green Party will have overcome since 2010, when it got on in Texas.
Back in 1968, when the Arizona law was different, it was possible to put a new party on the ballot in Arizona with just 358 valid signatures.
I predict that Green Party petitioners will be harassed because many, if not most, Democrats believe the narrative that Jill Stein spoiled the election for Hillary.
Under the Top 2 propsal in Arizona, candidates could have used the label of a nonqualified party.
And, Texas will be a lot tougher cuz of the turnout Beto generated.
Trump-Clinton 2016 = X
Stein Votes when X > zero ??? —
esp in the now standard *competitive* States.
See FEC — Federal Elections, 2016
Arizona already lets candidates who use the independent procedure choose the name of an unqualified party, to be printed on the ballot. Unqualified parties in Arizona that have taken advantage of this law in the past include the Natural Law Party and the Socialist Workers Party.
Arizona requires 37,000 signatures for a statewide independent candidate, but only a little over 3,000 signatures for a Libertarian candidate, and 6,000 to 7,000 for Democrats or Republicans.
JR —
AZ UNEQUAL math
— except for HACK MORON lawyers and worse HACK MORON judges
— who do not give a damn about ***equal*** in 14-1 and the about 400,000 UNION DEAD in 1861-1865.