Americans Elect's webpage regularly updates the number of signatures that have been collected
on ballot access petitions.
Americans Elect posts its national signature total (
on ballot access petitions for itself) weekly.
This total represents the number of signatures gathered across the nation so far
on ballot access petitions.
The Americans Elect web page says 2,057,241 signatures have collected
on ballot access petitions around the nation.
The meaning of a signature
on a ballot access petition was explained well by U.S. District Court Judge Philip Pratt, a Nixon appointee, in Hall v Austin, 495 F.Supp.782 (eastern district of Michigan, 1980).
On January 27, the Massachusetts Attorney General filed this brief in the State Supreme Court, in the lawsuit over whether the election law either permits or forbids using a stand - in presidential candidate
on the ballot access petition of an unqualified party.
West Virginia is one of eleven states in which a group must list a candidate
on a ballot access petition; there is no other way to get on the Read more»
The issue is whether Massachusetts law lets unqualified parties use a stand - in presidential candidate
on its ballot access petition, and then, if the stand - in withdraws, whether the state party can replace him or her with the actual presidential nominee of that party.
Not exact matches
Typically candidates can name a committee and list them
on their designating
petition, which is the green form where candidates collect signatures for
ballot access.
Please help the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania get
ballot access petition signatures
on Tuesday, May 15 — Primary Day in Pennsylvania.
July 20, 2011: Arkansas Green Party gets Ready to
Petition to Get Back
on Ballot May 11, 2011: Eighth Circuit Hears Arkansas Green Party Case May 2, 2011: Hearing Set in Arkansas Green Party
Ballot Access Lawsuit
On May 16, Americans Elect submitted its
ballot access petition in Alaska.
August 9, 2011: Arkansas Green Party Loses Lawsuit Against the 3 % Vote Test to Remain
on the
Ballot July 20, 2011: Arkansas Green Party gets Ready to
Petition to Get Back
on Ballot May 11, 2011: Eighth Circuit Hears Arkansas Green Party Case May 2, 2011: Hearing Set in Arkansas Green Party
Ballot Access Lawsuit
On July 21, independent gubernatorial candidate Gatewood Galbraith submitted his
ballot access petition in Kentucky.
On April 26, the New Mexico Secretary of State's office approved the
ballot access petitions filed earlier this month for the Constitution Party, the Green Party, and the Independent American Party.
On January 10, four Missouri state representatives introduced HB 1236, which deletes the accidental error in the 1993
ballot access reform bill that requires party
petitions to include the names of presidential elector candidates.
The two
ballot access improvements are: (1) moving the independent non-presidential
petition deadline from March to May; (2) letting independent presidential and vice-presidential candidates appear
on the
ballot even if they had been closely associated with a political party during the recent period.
Now that the Arizona Green Party is safely
on the
ballot for 2012, due to successfully getting a
ballot access bill through this year's legislature, Arizona Greens are now organizing a search for volunteer members who will
petition to restore the Green Party's
ballot status in neighbor states New Mexico, Utah, and Nevada.
On June 21, a Maryland judge ruled that the Libertarian Party had submitted enough
petition signatures to gain
ballot access in Maryland.
The once - imprisoned mayor of Bridgeport, the state's largest city, will embark
on a
petition drive Tuesday across the state to try to gain
access to the August primary
ballot.
Wilson points out that some of the Republican Party officials who are criticizing the state chair of the Republican Party for signing a Libertarian Party
ballot access petition, themselves signed
petitions to put Libertarians
on the 2010
ballot.
Because
ballot access is so difficult, no minor parties are
on the
ballot, and the
petition deadline for new parties was March 13.
«We will not succeed in placing Green candidates
on the Georgia
ballot without the participation of citizens willing to carry our
ballot access petitions,» said Al Herman, Secretary - Treasurer of the Georgia Party.
Pages 11 - 12 mention
ballot access, and cite to studies and recommendations from the past that say
petitions to get
on the
ballot should not exceed 1 % of the number of voters.
Sometime during the first week in October, the Americans Elect web page updated the number of signatures that have been obtained
on the group's
ballot access petitions so far this year.
Last month, the Country Party submitted 6,387 signatures
on its Wyoming
ballot access petition.
Virginia requires
petitions, both for general election
access by independent candidates and the nominees of unqualified parties, and also for a candidate to get
on a primary
ballot.
How to
access and / or help collect
petition signatures see we can get
on the November 2014
ballot for governor will be posted within the next 72 hours.