The Green Party has begun circulating its petition for party status in South Dakota, the first time it has ever tried that. It already has 1,000 signatures. The requirement can’t be known precisely because it will change in November 2022, but it will probably be no more than 4,000.
The South Dakota party petition was eased in 2018, from 2.5% of the last gubernatorial vote, to 1%.
Other groups that are circulating for party status for 2024, even though it is still 2022, are No Labels and Forward. As far as is known, this is the first time in history when petitions for party status are circulating so early in so many states. Even Americans Elect didn’t start its work for the 2012 election until the beginning of 2011.
Richard, American Elect did start gathering petition signatures in 2010. I recall they first started around September of 2010. Maybe they did not submit the signatures until 2011, but they did start in 2010.
No Labels Party, which is like Americans Elect 2.0 started around April or May of this year, with Arizona being their first state in which they started a ballot access drive.
Hopefully, they can get on the ballot and run some strong campaigns for the state legislature.