The North Carolina Green Party has collected the needed 13,865 valid signatures to be on the ballot for 2022 and 2024, according to this news story. This is the highest petition requirement that any state Green Party has met since 2016, when it overcame the Illinois requirement of 25,000. Thanks to Chris Cole for the link.
This is the first time the Green Party has ever successfully petitioned in North Carolina. It never appeared on the ballot in that state until 2018, and it was on the ballot in 2018 and 2020 because of a 2017 law that put all parties on the ballot automatically if their presidential nominee had been on the ballot in at least 35 states in the preceding presidential election.
In North Carolina, when a party gets on the ballot in a midterm year, it is also automatically on the ballot for the following presidential year.
The NC constitution party will be back on the ballot soon as well for the 2024 elections. We just could not spend over 30k like the greens did on a petition drive so ours is volunteers. We will soon have over 5k turned in
I think the writer of that article is being a tad too pessimistic about Green prospects, especially this year. This time around the North Carolina Greens have a fairly significant (he was on the major news media quite often since his high-profile resignation from the Obama State Department twelve years ago) and excellent peace activist, Matthew Hoh, at the top the the ticket for Senate. He’s probably a big reason why the NC petition succeeded, as GPUS rallied to help get him on the ballot, and I suspect he could get at least 5% of the vote depending on how well he parries the inevitable and nonsensical “spoiler” accusations. The fact that he’s a peace activist already helps to distinguish him from both ruling party candidates.