The 2020 Green Party national convention will be in Detroit, July 9-12, 2020.
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Pierre Nantel has been a New Democratic Party member of the Canadian Parliament since 2011. On August 19 he left his old party and joined the Green Party. He will run for re-election as a Green nominee. Before being elected, he was a television news broadcaster. He represents Longueuil-Saint-Hubert, Quebec. He says that he left the New Democratic Party because that party seemed so uninterested in climate change.
On August 19, Rocky De La Fuente filed a notice of appeal in the Arizona case over the number of signatures for an independent presidential candidate. De La Fuente v Hobbs. Arizona requires approximately 37,000 signatures for 2020. No presidential candidate has complied with this requirement since 2008, and back then it was 21,759 signatures. Nevertheless, the U.S. District Court upheld it last month.
On August 15, Christopher Graveline, an independent candidate for Michigan Attorney General, filed this brief in his ballot access case, Graveline v Johnson, e.d., 2:18cv-12354.
He filed the case last year, against the requirement that he obtain 30,000 signatures by mid-July. He won injunctive relief and was placed on the ballot. Now the courts must decide if the requirement is unconstitutional. It is likely that they will, given that last year they felt his case was strong enough to merit injunctive relief.
The Independent Party of Oregon statewide registration has slipped this year, so that it is 4.5% of the state total, below the 5% requirement to be entitled to its own government-administered primary. However, the party is more than willing to return to nominating by convention. It has learned during the years that it had a primary that it loses the ability to block major party candidates from also winning the Independent Party nomination via write-ins in the party primary. But when it nominates by convention, it doesn’t need to worry about that. See this story.