United Kansas Party Submits its Petition for Qualified Status

On March 12, the United Kansas Party submitted its petition to be recognized in Kansas. It exists only in Kansas. It is a centrist party that will probably file a lawsuit in state court this year to earn the ability to jointly nominate a candidate who is also a Democratic or Republican nominee. See this story. Thanks to Independent Political Report for this news.


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United Kansas Party Submits its Petition for Qualified Status — 8 Comments

  1. They paid a lot of money to paid petition signature gatherers to get on the ballot. It paid $11 per signature, plus there were coordinator overrides on top of this. I am not sure how high the coordinator overrides were, but I know they had more than one level of coordinator overrides. It would not surprise me if they paid around $20 per raw signature with the coordinator overrides.

  2. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think that fusion voting is considered a right except in the few states that expressly allow it such as New York.

    I would think United Kansas Party would have used their funds better by lobbying the legislature to allow fusion voting first.

  3. Autograph collection companies hire subcontractors, sometimes more than one level. The street rate is the general rate paid to the lowest level contractors who interface with potential signers directly in person. The coordination overrides are the amounts paid by the client to the level(s) above them.

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