The People’s Party is now ballot-qualified in Florida. Florida has more qualified parties than any other state. Here is a list of the eleven parties.
The People’s Party is now ballot-qualified in Florida. Florida has more qualified parties than any other state. Here is a list of the eleven parties.
Libertarian Party of California = Systemic Racism!!
By James Ogle [One], volunteer vote counter
2021-10-6
The Radical Caucus and 1Libertarian Caucus Won 17 Votes!
We got no seats.
“We got 17 (15.3%) votes of the votes but we didn’t get one of the 16 seats [one seat’s threshold is 6.93% of vote and two seats = 13.87%) of the representation. 15.3% > 13.87%] That’s systemic racism.”
Source: California Libertarian Party Meeting’s Minutes:
https://ca.lp.org/minutes/
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Richard, I thought the Independent Party of Florida had lost qualification. When did they regain it? Besides Oregon, which other states have currently qualified and truly independent (not Alliance Party affiliates) IPs? Delaware? Besides us in West Virginia, which other states have active IPs that are working on qualification?
They lost ballot access. Party status in Florida doesn’t mean much.
Their candidates still face a very steep qualification.
It is irrelevant how many parties are licensed as “official” parties by the state ballot monopoly. What is relevant as that each voter can make their choices effective with their ballot.
The Independent Party of Florida got its qualified status back several years ago.
Other ballot-qualified parties named “Independent Party” are in Connecticut, Delaware, Louisiana, Oregon, with a potential for one to become qualified in West Virginia.
Party status in Florida is very valuable, except for the 2011 law that says a qualified party can’t be on for president unless it is recognized by the FEC or unless it submits a petition of over 110,000 signatures. Florida has not enforced that law in either 2012 nor 2020, and if it is not repealed, there will probably be a lawsuit against it in 2023. It will be difficult for Florida to defend the law, given that the state didn’t even enforce it in two of the three presidential elections in which it was in effect.
The Berniecrats — Nick Barna Clusterfück Party, you mean, is ballot-qualified?
Commie buffoons.
I thought I had heard a few years back that Florida was changing the law to make it more difficult to qualify parties for the ballot. It must not have passed.
It passed. See Richard Winger, most recent comment above.
No Florida law makes it harder for a party to be ballot-qualified. Instead there is a 2011 law that makes it tough for a qualified party to be on for president.
RE: “Other ballot-qualified parties named “Independent Party” are in Connecticut, Delaware, Louisiana, Oregon, with a potential for one to become qualified in West Virginia.” The Independent Party of Connecticut is supposedly an affiliate of the Alliance Party and their URL is dead. The Independent Party of Louisiana appears to be just one of Terry Wheelock’s sham websites out of Ft. Worth, TX. Is it even legit? I doubt it. Independent Parties of Delaware, Oregon, and West Virginia have active websites. But I’m still not seeing anything for Florida unless it is the independentflorida.com site which does not appear to be a party, only a message.
Just because a party does not have an active website does not mean it is dead. The Connecticut Independent Party is very active and always has at least 100 nominees for state and federal office every two years. The Louisiana Independent Party runs more candidates for congress than any other third party in Louisiana.
More or less control freak statism – left/right — top/bottom.
In Florida, a political party has to have a set of rules and three party officers. In addition they have to have an annual audit of their books, and show some political activity. By rule, the SOS has established a standard of either $500 in contributions or expenditures.
These last standards are the hardest to meet. Some report an office as an in-kind contribution. When the Independent Party lost recognition it was for failure to complete an audit. It claimed that this would cost several $1000, but it appears it now can be done for $125.
Florida has high filing fees, but most of the $$$ actually go to the party. The parties could have candidates if someone actually filed.
Good information, Jim. Thank you. A while back, I was looking into non profit postage status for our little party here in the Mountain State and the Postal Service required an audit for the application. Yes indeed, costly unless you have a pro bono CPA amongst your ranks.
Great comments you all. I come to you as the Sec/Treas of People’s Party FL. We are anxious to endorse 2022 NPA candidates and run our own come 2024. We aspire to support the average American without corporate funding or influence. bit.ly/ballotfl
Val got it right.
Who else is pumped for the massive chimp out scheduled on Fox and CNN tomorrow night?
Let the bodies hit the floor!