New Hampshire Representative Max Abramson has introduced HB 1214. It says that a group that is not a qualified party, but which has at least 500 registered members, may appear automatically on the November ballot. Such a group would nominate by convention, not primary.
The current definition of party is one that polled at least 4% at the last election for either U.S. Senator or Governor. The only qualified parties currently are the Republican and Democratic Parties.
The Oregon House Rules Committee has introduced HB 4026. It eases the definition of “political party” by lowering the percentage of registered voters needed for a party to maintain status, from one-half of 1%, to one-third of 1%. This registration requirement is an alternative to polling 1% of the vote for a statewide office at either of the last two elections. It had a hearing in the House Rules Committee on February 3. Oregon committees don’t normally vote on bills at the hearing; they do that later.
The bill was introduced at the request of the Working Families Party.
The Indiana Secretary of State’s web page has this list of candidates for the May 2020 primary. Nine Democrats and two Republicans qualified for the presidential primary ballots. The Republicans are Donald Trump and William Weld. The Democrats are Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, Pete Buttigieg, Tulsi Gabbard, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Tom Steyer, Elizabeth Warren, and Andrew Yang. See the list here. The list presents Democrats first, for all federal and state office. To see the Republican list, first scroll through the Democratic list.
Candidates needed 4,500 signatures, with 500 from each U.S. House district. Indiana probably has the most difficult mandatory petition requirement in the nation for presidential primaries.
The Iowa Democratic Party web page has these results for its February 3 caucus.
The Iowa Republican Party web page has these results of the Republican caucus of February 3. President Trump received 97.1%; William Weld 1.3%; Joe Walsh 1.1%; other .5%.
