According to this news story, over 15,000 Arizona registered voters have become members of the No Labels Party. The Secretary of State’s website has not yet posted any data later than July 1, 2023, but the October 1 figure will be posted soon. Apparently the reporters for this story got the data from individual counties.
As of July 1, No Labels had 8,505 registrants. At that July tally, the Libertarian Party was still larger than No Labels, with 33,738 members.
If No Labels reaches approximately 29,000 registrants by next year, it will be ballot-qualified for 2026 as well as for 2024, even if it doesn’t run any presidential nominee in 2024. In Arizona, a party that has two-thirds of 1% registration remains on the ballot. Thanks to Richard Grayson for the link.
Wouldn’t it be appropriate for the No Labels Party run Uncommitted Electors for President and Vice President?
State election laws can’t cope with that strategy. They would probably do what Michigan did in 1960 when the Independent American Party in the state had unpledged electors. Since almost no state prints candidates for presidential elector on the ballot, including Michigan, the square on the Michigan ballot for president for Independent American was blank. So virtually no voter voted for those electors, because it appeared there was no one to vote for. They only got 539 votes.
ANY *UNCOMMITTED* LAST NAME FOR A HUMAN CANDIDATE ???
ABOLISH THE EC AND ALL THE MACHINATIONS WITH IT.
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P-A-T
I believe that No Labels is already qualified for 2026. Americans Elect was qualified for both 2012 and 2014. I think the law is that a new party gets qualified for two election cycles. See https://ballot-access.org/2023/03/08/arizona-secretary-of-state-says-no-labels-party-petition-is-valid/
It seems like the Democrats greatly fear that if they nominate anyone but Biden, they won’t win. Only Biden is believed by them to have a broad enough appeal to pull off getting elected. So, they have to block anyone else from running against him, either inside or outside the Democratic Party.
What a miserable party they have become.
Biden won’t win either.
WZ –
DONKEYS = MORE MORE MORE COMMIE SINCE 1932 —
GET THE MAX $$$ LOOT FROM GOP TAX SLAVES.
ZERO NEW IN TAX LOOTERS HISTORY.
HOW MANY MILLIONS IN LOOT HAS BIDEN GOT SINCE 1972 ???
Biden crime family rakes in multi millions from Red China and Ukrainian Nazis to sell out the USA.
DRF wrote:
“Wouldn’t it be appropriate for the No Labels Party run Uncommitted Electors for President and Vice President?”
That would be an interesting strategy for them.
RW responded:
“State election laws can’t cope with that strategy. They would probably do what Michigan did in 1960 when the Independent American Party in the state had unpledged electors. Since almost no state prints candidates for presidential elector on the ballot, including Michigan, the square on the Michigan ballot for president for Independent American was blank.”
A good point. But, if a multi state organization, like No Labels, advertised that they would do that, then state election officers might be willing to accommodate that somehow. Perhaps the ballot could simply read: “Unpledged Electors of the No Labels Party”
Another possibility is to run stand-ins that withdraw if they carry any states, thereby releasing their electors from their pledges.
BTW, didn’t the Democratic Party of Alabama run unpledged electors in 1960? How was that presented on the ballot?
The Wikipedia article for “Unpledged Electors” states the following about the 1960 election, but doesn’t specify how they were presented on the actual ballots:
“In Alabama, the vote was not for the presidential candidates but for individual electors, with each of the 11 electors having their own separate elections. As a result of Alabama’s Democratic primaries, five of the eleven nominated Democratic electors were pledged to Democratic nominees John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson and six were unpledged. Although all eleven Democratic electors were elected, the unusual situation has led to ambiguity about the correct method to calculate popular votes for Kennedy and the unpledged electors.”
In 1856, Pennsylvania Republicans and Americans had a joint slate for 26 electors. The 27th elector at the top of the list was either Fremont or Fillmore. The popular votes has conventionally been apportioned based on the votes for the presidential elector. If this was done for Alabama, Nixon was the popular vote winner.
JR wrote:
“In 1856, Pennsylvania Republicans and Americans had a joint slate for 26 electors. The 27th elector at the top of the list was either Fremont or Fillmore.”
Any idea how that appeared on the ballot? Were the names of all the electors listed?
Also, given that that was 1856, were there in fact standardized ballots for PA in 1856?