The Montana Green Party did not poll enough votes to remain on the ballot. The law requires a vote of 5% of the winning candidate for Governor, but any office counts. However, the Green Party only ran for President and U.S. Senator, but not for any of the statewide state offices. Also, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. had the ballot label “We the People” but he didn’t get enough votes.

The Libertarian Party retained its qualified status with its nominee for Clerk of the Supreme Court. The party needed to poll 16,319 votes for one of the statewide offices, and Roger Roots polled 21,594 for Clerk.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was on the ballot in some states as the nominee of the We the People Party, but now that the election is over, his party is not ballot-qualified in any state except Oregon. In Oregon, a new party gets the next two elections.

We the People would also be qualified in Wisconsin now if Kennedy had polled as much as 1% of the presidential vote in that state, but he only got .5%. He had fought to get off the ballot in Wisconsin so it is not surprising that he didn’t get 1% there.

The Georgia Libertarian Party, which has been ballot-qualified for all statewide office starting in 1988, is no longer qualified. The only statewide office on the ballot this year was president, and the party didn’t poll enough votes. The requirement is 1% of the total number of registered voters, which would have been about 80,000 votes.

Normally the party always stays on the ballot because it always gets enough votes for Public Service Commissioner, which is up every two years. But this year, because a U.S. District Court ruled that statewide elections for that office violate the federal Voting Rights Act, the state cancelled the election for that office. The Eleventh Circuit reversed the U.S. District Court and said statewide elections are legal, but by then it was too late for primaries for that office, and the terms of the two expiring members were extended. It is not clear when the next election for that office will be.