The Oregon Secretary of State recently released a voter registration tally as of June 26. This is the first monthly tally to include Americans Elect, because the party wasn’t ballot-qualified until May. The new tally can be seen here. Americans Elect had three registered members as of the time of this tally: two in Lane County and one in Marion County.
The Oregon Green Party did not run any statewide candidates in 2010, so that jeopardized its ballot status for future years. Oregon permits a party to remain ballot-qualified either by having polled 1% for a statewide race in the last election, or by keeping or restoring its registration to one-half of 1%. During 2011 the party’s registration had been below that benchmark. However, over the last few months, the party has been conducting a registration drive, and it now meets the one-half of 1% standard, and is safely on the ballot this year. Thanks to Blair Bobier for this news. In Oregon, the Green Party is called the Pacific Green Party.
Larry Meeker, a former Vice-President of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank, and a former two-term Mayor of Lake Quivira, Kansas, will run as an independent candidate for the Kansas House of Representatives, 17th district. See this story. Meeker had intended to run as a Democrat this year for that seat, but he can’t appear on the August Democratic primary ballot because election officials misplaced his qualifying paperwork. So, he instead petitioned to be on the ballot as an independent candidate.
Lake Quivira is a suburb of Kansas City.
According to the Kansas Secretary of State, in June 2012, the ballot-qualified Reform Party nominated Chuck Baldwin for President and Joseph Martin for Vice-President, and certified these candidates to the Secretary of State.
Chuck Baldwin was the Constitution Party’s presidential nominee in 2008. In 2010 he moved from Florida to Kila, Montana, where he is a pastor. He has a web page but it doesn’t indicate that he is running for President, or any office, in 2012. During 2011 he had said he would run as a Republican for Lieutenant Governor of Montana, but later he changed his mind and did not run for any office in the 2012 primary in Montana. It is not known if Baldwin wishes to run for President in 2012, or even if he has been informed of his nomination.
In 2008, the Reform Party of Kansas had nominated Baldwin for President. The Reform Party of Kansas nominated Ralph Nader in 2004.
The American Independent Party of California will choose a presidential nominee on August 11, in Sacramento. The meeting will be at Perkos Restaurant at 925 Third Street, at the corner of J Street. The Saturday session starts at 9:30 a.m. and is set to last until 5 p.m. There are also proceedings at the same location on Friday evening, August 10.
