Two petitions are circulating for statewide ballot status in Illinois, the Libertarian Party petition, and the independent Ralph Nader petition. The deadline is Monday, June 23. Each of the two petitions is likely to have 50,000 signatures, to meet a legal requirement of 25,000 signatures.
In 2006, the Illinois Green Party statewide petition had approximately 38,000 signatures, and it was sufficient to meet the 25,000-signature requirement, even against a challenge by the Democratic Party.
The Green Party is a qualified party in Illinois, and does not need to do a petition this year to place its nominees on the November ballot. It has that status for 2010 as well.
I quess the Constitution Party didn’t make it here either.
Just wondering, do you contact the campaign or signature coordinators to get the info on how many signatures the Nader campaign is working on? Hope they get in at least 50,000 in Illinois but I thought 2-3 weeks ago they were at 25,000.