The Hawaii Elections office has removed the Constitution Party from qualified status. It didn’t run any candidates in 2022. The Hawaii law on how a party remains on the ballot is very strange. Once it has been on the ballot in three elections in a row, then it is automatically on the ballot for the next five elections. The Constitution Party was on the ballot by petition in 2016, 2018, and 2020, so by that means it earned its “free” period (2022-2030). During the three elections in which it petitioned, it was not required to have candidates, and it did not have any in 2018, but that wasn’t held against it.
But, it turns out, once the party is in its “free” period, it must then run at least one candidate in every election, or the qualification is cancelled. Thanks to Thomas Jones for this news.
HOW MANY CIRCUS EVENT TESTS DO MINOR PARTIES [AND THEIR CANDIDATES] HAVE TO DO/PASS TO GET BALLOT ACCESS IN THE 50 ANTI-DEMOCRACY MINORITY RULE GERRYMANDER STATE REGIMES ???
EQUAL IN 14-1 AMDT
EACH ELECTION IS N-E-W.
TOO MANY BAAAADE/USELESS BALLOT ACCESS LAWYERS TO COUNT ???
Parties which have a precinct chair who represents the party in that precinct between elections, and who is present in the election hall on election evening, should be eligible to get votes in that precinct. Why make simple things complicated?
I know that getting the 10 years of free ballot access in Hawaii was a big motivation for them to do those three petition drive there. They really should have put a lot of effort into recruiting a candidate for 2022.
This is why the candidates and ballot drives election system makes no sense. Simplify!
They didn’t run a single candidate in 2022. That’s a legitimate reason to assume they are no longer active, no matter what Thomas Jones says.
Much simpler in my proposal. Party precinct chair either shows up on election night or he doesn’t. Lawyers might have to find other employment, but I don’t consider that a downside.
I can’t imagine there’s a ton of natural support for the Constitution Party in a state like Hawaii.
Still, it’s a shame the votes lose out on the option, and if there’s any type of local Constitutation Party chapters, they may want to beef up their candidate recruitment.
Someone should have run under that label. I don’t care if they had to pull a whino off the street and run him.
Why? If they have no support they should respect that fact and move on.
Any political party can find supporters in any state. I would be willing to bet money that there are people in Hawaii who support, or who would support, the Constitution Party.
The problem here is lack of organization from their state committee, if one still exists, and their national committee. They should have known what the law was, and actively recruited candidates to run. Participating in politics is hard work and this is the kind of stuff which happens when people do not put the necessary work into it.
So are these supporters in search of a candidate? Candidates in search of supporters? Or mainland interlopers hard pressed to find either one?
Is this the same Andy who screwed over Virgil Goode during the 2012 election?
Virgil said his petition papers came back with illegible name’s and addresses.
So you’re saying Andy’s poor penmanship cost Virgil ballot access in several states?
Virgil said that. I only know what I read.
Virgil Goode is a good man with a stellar reputation. Everyone who knows him and his family will tell you he is a true PATRIOT and Christian Conservative and not a liar. As far as I am concerned his word is gospel. He loves the Lord and America with all his heart. If he says Andy Gonzalez sabotaged his campaign then that’s exactly what happened. The only reason it’s not an easy choice of who to believe is that it’s not even a choice at all. It’s 100% hands down Virgil each and every time!!!!
Virgil Goode qualified for the ballot in every state where I was part of the signature gathering to get him on the ballot. He ripped us off (actually me since I fronted people money out of my own pocket) in Alabama where the Secretary of State’s office reported that our validity rate was over 75%. The job was NOT a pay per valid signature job, it was supposed to be a pay for q gross number of signatures job to obtain ballot access, as in get paid for every signature and have a validity rate high enough that the petition qualifies for the ballot. We accomplished this mission. If it had been a pay per valid signature only job we’d have wanted to get paid at a significantly higher pay rate, or we would have turned the job down. It is a standard operating procedure in the petition business for petition proponens to turn in extra signatures above the legal requirement because everyone knows that some signatures will be deemed invalid by the election department for a variety of reasons. Even if all of the signature gathering is done in front of polling places or by going door-to-door with walk lists of registered voters it is still possible that the election department will disqualify some signatures. This is why petition proponents have it built into their budgets to pay for some extra signatures for padding.
The only states where I worked on petitions to get Virgil Goode on the ballot were North Dakora and Alabama, and he qualified for the ballot in both of those states.
The petition in North Dakota was actually a party qualufication petition, but it allowed the party to nominate candidates and have them placed on the ballot, which was how Vurgil Goode got on the ballot in that state.
The petition to place Virgil Goode on the ballot in Alabama was an independent candidate petition.
@Andy
I didn’t mean to imply that the Constitution Party wouldn’t have any support in Hawaii. My apologies if it came off that way. I’m not anywhere close to a supporter of the Constitution Party, but I do have a deep respect for those who run inependent or third party campaigns, no matter what the party, and everyone, no matter the state, should have the option to vote for the candidate they want to support.
I believe Virgil Goode over anything Andy No Last Name says too!
I also believe Virgil Goode. He was the first Congressman to support Trump in 2016 and he’s a white nationalist. What is Andy? Some Mexican who tricks people into signing things they don’t want to sign. Easy choice.
I am not Mexican and I have zero Mexican ancestry.
Virgil Goode is a lying scumbag who used the Constitution Party just because they had ballot access in some states. He did not really care about them or care about the US Constitution.
“I don’t care if they had to pull a whino off the street and run him” If a Whino is a “Whig in Name Only” the Constitution Party might not be allowed to nominate him. Hawaii might ban cross-party nominations.
Please be quiet.
Virgil Goode > Gene Jerkman
I like the system used in Australia. A party sends a list of its party members to election authorities in electronic form. They check whether the persons exist.
They then contact a sample of the people and ask whether they are a member.
Also sounds too complicated. I note no feedback here regarding the system I proposed which is much simpler.