According to this post at Recall Elections blog, in all U.S. history, before 2010, only 21 state legislators in U.S. history had ever faced recall elections. But in 2011-2012, there will have been fifteen.
Reply
Arizona holds a special election on June 12 the fill the vacant U.S. House seat, 8th district. Each of the qualified parties has its own primary on April 17. No one is running from the Libertarian Party, or from Americans Elect, even though those parties are ballot-qualified in Arizona. Two Greens are running against each other in the Green Party primary, Charlie Manolakis and Richard Grayson (who is a declared write-in candidate). Here is the full list of candidates, which also includes one Democrat and four Republicans.
Foster’s Daily Democrat, a daily newspaper in Dover, New Hampshire, has this fairly lengthy story about the Americans Elect petition for party status in New Hampshire. The story also mentions the Libertarian Party petition for party status. Neither group is finished collecting yet, but each group has more signatures than the required 13,698.
The New Hampshire party petition has existed since 1996, and until this year, had only been used once, by the Libertarians in 2000.
The story also has interesting information about the Americans Elect ballot situation in Maine. The party petition in that state has already been held to have enough valid signatures. The story mentions that in order to remain ballot-qualified in Maine after the 2012 election, the party must have at least 10,000 registrants who actually vote in November (it doesn’t matter whom they vote for). The old 5% vote test for a party to remain ballot-qualified no longer exists, thanks to a change in the 2009 law. The story mentions that Americans Elect in Maine now has fewer than 100 registrants. Thanks to Bill Van Allen for the link.
On March 12, the Montana Secretary of State determined that the Americans Elect petition has enough valid signatures.
The Texas presidential primaries on May 29 will list these candidates: on the Republican ballot, Michele Bachmann, John Davis, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Ron Paul, Buddy Roemer, Mitt Romney, and Rick Santorum; on the Democratic ballot, Bob Ely, President Obama, Darcy Richadson, and John Wolfe. Thanks to Jim Riley for this news.