One of the Nevada Secretary of State’s omnibus election law bills this year is AB 48. It makes many miscellaneous election law changes, including a provision that says the qualified smaller parties must notify the state of their presidential and vice-presidential nominees in August. This is discriminatory, because the law would continue to let the two major parties notify the state in early September. The Independent American Party (the Nevada state affiliate of the Constitution Party) is working with the Secretary of State and the legislature to amend the bill.
The bill passed the Assembly Legislative Operations and Elections Committee on March 28, with an understanding that the provision mentioned above will be taken out of the bill, or at least some satisfactory solution will be found.
Yep, we got our work cut out for us 🙂
Where is that Model Election LAW ???
Each election is NEW.
So the AIP is not a major party? What does it take to become a major party?
Don’t know about this Nevada AIP that you’re taking about.
However to become a “major party” in Nevada, you do need about 100,000+ registered voters in your party and so far the IAP has about 70,000 registered voters.
I believe Richard can fill you in on the specifics of the state law.
However, one of the requirements of being a “major party” in Nevada is also to have primaries in selecting candidates, and we Independent Americans currently prefer to pick (nominate) our candidates at our State Conventions instead.