May 30 is the Texas deadline for minor party petitions this year. The Texas Green Party worked very hard, but only collected 26,584 signatures, so they won’t be on the Texas ballot this year. 45,253 are required this year.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
The Green Party was hampered by the fact that some voters thought that they could not sign both independent gubernatorial petitions and minor party petitions. And with 370,000 signatures on independent gubernatorial candidate Friedman and Strayhorn’s petitions that made for a significant challenge.