On July 2, the Missouri Secretary of State’s office announced that the Constitution Party petition has the required 10,000 signatures needed for ballot access. The Constitution Party is the only party likely to submit a successful petition in Missouri this year. It is likely that independent Ralph Nader will also meet the requirement. The Libertarian Party had already been on the Missouri ballot automatically.
Richard,
How many states do you think the CP will be on
Richard,
Do you predict any presidential ballot access challenges this year?
All except Arizona, DC, Georgia, Indiana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas; and New York is tough to predict. The Constitution Party activists in New York seem afraid to try because they are convinced they will fail, but maybe they will get their courage up.
So the Constitution Party may have its best year for presidential ballot access ever this year. The party, so far, is ahead of the Libertarian Party in two states, West Virginia and South Dakota.
43-44? Not bad at all. You have more courage in my party’s ballot acces than I do. Maryland and Pennsylvania seem in trouble,but maybe they arent.
I tried to convince the NYCP people that using the Right-to-Life name would be better because more petitioners would offer to help,and you’d get more votes in the end—they were NOT convinced.
“I tried to convince the NYCP people that using the Right-to-Life name would be better because more petitioners would offer to help,and you’d get more votes in the end—they were NOT convinced.”
Using the Right-to-Life name would be a horrible idea.
I gathered signatures to get the Constitution Party on the ballot in North Dakota, and in North Dakota the state requires parties to put a summary of their views on the petition sheets. The person who wrote the summary for the Constitution Party’s views included the part about the party being 100% anti-abortion on there and this made the petition more difficult to get signed than it would have been otherwise.
“Using the Right-to-Life name would be a horrible idea.”
How do you figure? They have 45,000 registered voters that are just WAITING for a chance to revive their party,by voting or signature gathering! I dont like the name as much, but it ensures lots of votes, it gives us a better chance of actually GETTING on the ballot, and it doesnt recquire as much money!
Would they agree to put Baldwin-Castle on the petition forms?
Missouri election laws are somewhat complicated so I called the Secretary of States office for clarification. I thought that by being on the ballot this time, the Constitution Party would now be a ‘recognized’ party here and found out not only need to submit the number of petition signatures, but must obtain better than 2% of the total vote for a statewide office in order to maintain recognized status. My confusion came when I saw that the Green Party, once a recognized party is no longer one since they did not receive more than 2% of the total vote for two election cycles and have no candidates this year. Now, to further complicate the issue, a party can be ‘recognized’ in a county if they receive more than 2% of a district race. So while the Progressive Party is not a ‘recognized’ party statewide, it is a recognized party in one county.
Here is an idea: For 2010 petitioning, the Progressive and Green Parties (or are they one and the same there?) could get together with the Nader-Gonzalez forces and put a new, united Populist Party on the ballot!