Indiana Green Party Starts Circulating a 2018 Statewide Petition

Posted on by February 26, 2018
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The Green Party has never been on the Indiana ballot for statewide office. However, it is trying to place a candidate for Secretary of State on the 2018 ballot. It has 500 signatures. The requirement is 26,700 signatures, due June 30. Although that is a severe requirement, it is lower than it has been since 1982, because the requirement is based on midterm year turnout, and the 2014 Indiana turnout was extraordinarily low.

No one has done a successful statewide petition in Indiana (neither independent nor third party) since 2000, when Pat Buchanan did it.

Idaho Green Party Begins Petitioning for Party Status

Posted on by February 26, 2018
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The Green Party has never been on the ballot in Idaho, although some of its presidential nominees have qualified as independent candidates. The Idaho independent petition is only 1,000 signatures for statewide office, but the party petition is 2% of the last presidential vote, which is currently 13,809.

However, the Green Party is now circulating a party petition in Idaho, and it has a few hundred signatures. The deadline is August 30. The reason the party petition deadline is so late is that the Populist Party won a lawsuit in the Ninth Circuit in 1984 against the old May deadline.

If a party can get on the ballot in Idaho, it can easily remain on the ballot, as long as it continues to be active. A party remains on the ballot if it runs at least three candidates every two years. It doesn’t matter how many votes its candidates get; it merely must run three candidates.