For the first time, there are enough people registered in the Conservative Party in Delaware, so that it is ballot-qualified and is free to nominate by convention in 2022, assuming it keeps its registrants. The party, as of February 1, 2021, has 779 registrants. The law requires registration of one-tenth of 1%, which is 759 registrants.
As of October 2020, there were 660 registered Conservatives, so it appears someone has been working to increase the party’s registration. However, there is no website for any Conservative Party of Delaware, and it is possible there is no organization, and the increase in registration is just individual voters choosing to write in “Conservative” on their voter registration forms.
The other qualified minor parties in Delaware are the Independent Party and the Libertarian Party. The Green Party has 752 registrants, up from 719 as of October 2020, so it virtually has enough.
Richard, I don’t know why you don’t post the links, but here it is. https://elections.delaware.gov/reports/e70r2601pty_20210201.shtml
I find it interesting that the Constitution Party is no longer anywhere near being qualified there even though they once were. My guess is that many of them switched their registration to the Conservative Party. The Liberal (677), American Delta (662), and American (591) parties are not too far away, if they are even still active.
How come surviving richer Elephants in New England / NY / PA / MD do NOT move to SMALL LITTLE DE and take over the DE regime — to then cause DE to be wiped O-U-T by any means possible by RED commie Donkeys ???
Well Thomas, why don’t you show them the way? You obviously need a break from that Detroit perfume. The sea air would do your decrepit old bones some good.
Is the NY Conservative Party basically the Constitution party under a different name?
@Tom, no the NY Conservative party has nothing to do with the Constitution party and has never even supported a single presidential candidate from them. They are one of the 2 parasite parties we have here in NY the Conservative party always co-nominates the GOP candidates for Pres, gov, lt. gov, attorney general, etc. If you’re wondering, the other parasite party we have is the Working Families party which does the exact same thing with the DEM party’s candidates.
NO quotas for voters to access candidates. Abolish all ballot access laws.
Thanks for the reply. I personally like electoral fusion and so I look upon the Working Families Party as being a good thing or, at least, not a parasite.
I also think that — states with party registration — it is a good idea to use it for ballot access purposes. If it is one of many avenues a party can take. People might be more willing to declare a minor or new party label when they register to vote, than when they are being pestered by some total stranger to sign a ballot access petition.
Back in 2000, I volunteered to help a Libertarian Party nominee get on the election ballot here in Minnesota for a Congressional seat. I had a brief fling with libertarianism in high school/early college and I have always seen free elections as being somewhat akin to free markets. Anyway, We had two weeks — in the summer — to collect something like 2,000 signatures. Because it was the summer, you couldnt expect to find many students on campus and lots of people that you did meet were not residents of the district, but tourists. To make things even more messy, this is the rural district in Western Minnesota. The petition drive was unssucessful, but I walked away with some idea of how silly ballot access rules can be.
Minnesota still requires the petition signatures to be collected in that two-week period in the summer. A bill got introduced to expand the time peroid, and it would have also made it easier for a third party to become qualified (and get automatic ballot accesss). It failed to pass, but I have gottten more Democrats on board with the bill’s ideas.
Minnesota use to allow electoral fusion, but it was killed off by the Republicans, who were quite blunt as to why they were doing it.
Many Republicans in New England have already moved to New Hampshire, along with a number of Libertarians.
The Constitution Party was only on the ballot in Delaware when the requirement was one-twentieth of 1% of the total state registration. When the law was changed to double that percentage, that killed off the Constitution Party in Delaware.