The Kansas Green Party’s Facebook page says the party will attempt to collect 21,112 valid signatures to become a qualified party.  This represents 2% of the last gubernatorial vote.  The law requires that the petition be completed within six months.  The party is planning the drive to start April 6, 2019.  The Green Party has tried this petition twice before, but always runs out of time.  No party has successfully petitioned in Kansas (except Americans Elect) since 1998, when the U.S. Taxpayers Party (later known as the Constitution Party) did this petition.

Now that Maine has used ranked choice voting for a federal election, it seems likely that Massachusetts will be the second such state.  A well-organized group, Voter Choice Massachusetts, is already organizing to support a bill in the legislature, and if necessary a statewide initiative.  Massachusetts has the easiest procedures for statewide initiatives of any state.  The petition is 3% of the last gubernatorial vote, the lowest in the nation.  Here is the Voter Choice Massachusetts web page.

On December 12, the North Carolina legislature reversed itself, and passed a bill providing that if a new election is held in the U.S. House 9th district race, new primaries will also be held.  This means that the Green and Constitution Parties, which did not contest this race last month, would be free to hold new conventions and nominate.  The three parties with primaries are Republican, Democratic, and Libertarian, and all three of those parties did have nominees for the 9th district on the ballot last month, so probably all three of those parties will have new primaries.

The vote in the House for HB 1029 was 81-18; in the Senate, 34-3.