A Georgia Administrative Law judge will soon decide whether Jill Stein should be on the Georgia ballot or not. Georgia law, passed just this year, says a “political body which has obtained ballot access in no fewer than 20 states or territories for the office of presidential elector” is automatically on the Georgia ballot for president only.
In Georgia, minor parties that are not ballot-qualified are still expected to file a list of their officers and bylaws, and then they are a “political body”, but except for the law mentioned above, they must petition for their nominees.
The original Georgia Green Party has the status of a political body. It is called the Georgia Green Party. But it is no longer affiliated with the national Green Party, because the national Green Party objects to the Georgia Green Party’s stance on gender care for teen-agers. The Georgia Green Party wants to outlaw such care.
Greens in Georgia who support such care have formed the Unified Green Party.
Georgia Democrats say Jill Stein can’t be on the ballot under the new law because the political body, the Georgia Green Party, is not the same organization that put Jill Stein on the ballot in other states around the nation.
The political body on 20 state ballots is the Green Party US, which has qualified. The Unified Green Party is the agent of the GP-US within GA. The law dose not seem to say anything against such a common arrangement. The GA-GP is not relevant as they are not recognized by the ballot qualified GP-US. I don’t see a problem.
Hopefully the Georgia Administrative Law judge espouses democracy.