Bad Minnesota Ballot Access Bill Designed to Disqualify Legal Marijuana Now Party as a Major Party Before 2024 General Election

Here is a link to the bill, SF4729. Scroll down to Sec. 7 for its impact on Major Party Status for political parties in Minnesota.

In the 2020 General Election, Kevin O’Connor, the Legal Marijuana Now (LMN) Party candidate for US Senator, receiving 190,154 votes, which was 5.92% of the vote. Because of that, the LMN Party is qualified as a Major Party in Minnesota through the 2024 General Election. This bill is designed to take from the LMN its legitimately earned Major Party status.

The effective date of the proposed change in the bill is August 1, 2024. Because this is in the middle of the election and petitioning season, that effective date is likely unconstitutional.

There must have been an error in the law before the current attempt to amend it, as the date of the 2024 General Election is November 5, not November 7.


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Bad Minnesota Ballot Access Bill Designed to Disqualify Legal Marijuana Now Party as a Major Party Before 2024 General Election — 6 Comments

  1. HOW MANY DO OR DIE ORDERS FROM DEVIL CITY ???

    ONE MORE REASON FOR EQUAL BALLOT ACCESS PROCEDURE IN CONSTS.

  2. Suppose the Republican Party of Minnesota warms up to weed. How would you get the Criminalize Marijuana Now party on the ballot and to stay on the ballot?

  3. By not being stoned and lazy. When you’re straight edge and hardcore about it, hard work comes naturally. Stoners who don’t get out of bed before noon don’t know what that’s like.

    But, actually, I wouldn’t pursue recriminalization that way. There are more effective avenues for single issue advocacy than pop up parties.

  4. Straight edge White nationalist skinhead for life! Hail!

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