The Texas ballot-qualified minor parties held their nominating conventions on the weekend of June 9-10. Here is a story about the Libertarian Party convention and the Green Party convention. Both parties are ballot-qualified, based on their votes in 2010.
Americans Elect has suspended its petition in Texas, and the Constitution Party and other unqualified parties don’t seem to be trying to get on in Texas this year, so the November Texas ballot is expected to have only four presidential candidates on the ballot. The petition deadline for all unqualified parties and independent candidates is June 29.
Pretty good until the last paragraph:
“As third-party candidates well know, winning isn’t everything (who cares what Vince Lombardi said). They occasionally play a spoiler role, particularly in local races. In 2010, for example, state Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin, won by four votes. The Libertarian candidate in that race got 2.9 percent; it’s likely that a majority of the Libertarian vote would have gone to the Republican had there been no Libertarian in the race.”
Interesting how the media keeps pushing this misconception, which goes against numerous polls and other actual evidence.
The Green and Libertarian Parties have failed and their voting systems are causes them to be exclusionary, corrupt and to get small and smaller.
All people, all colors, all languages, all parties, all independents, talk peace: http://www.briscoe2012.com/meet-the-ticket.html
Right, and how many states are you on the ballot in?
Oh, that’s right, zero states.
We have a big team. We have a unity message unlike any others.
We’re working hard by nominating more and more people. Today we have accomplished a lot with all parties and independents by working together as a team:
http://usparliament.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=554
You don’t have a big team. What you have is a big list of people you spam, most of whom have just not bothered to ask you to take them off the list, or don’t even realize they can.
The number of people who actually asked to be on your list, and still want to be, is almost certainly very small.
You are on zero state ballots now, and probably will still be on zero state ballots in November.
It’s too bad the Constitution Party didn’t take advantage of the more leinent laws this year in Texas. I would think their vote total would keep them ballot qualified if they were to get on the ballot.
We are cool people who welcome all.
If you know of someone who wants their name on or off the web page, then please contact us or post their name here.
We’re an elected 100-member committee made up of people who want to work with all parties, all independents, all voters and non voters.
The 8th USA Parliament is free, and we’re trying to expand from 100 names to 1000 consecutively ranked names with plenty of consecutively ranked names as back-ups, just like a virtual parliament, names in 2012 on August 6th, 2012. All based on stacks of paper ballots kept as proof.
We’re also electing the Texas Super-state Parliament:
http://www.usparliament.org/ss9.php
Hope you like it! It’s a great tool for all parties and independents to elect names and decisions under the Sainte-Lague parliament seat distribution system, the single-transferable vote (STV), Hagenbach-Bishoff method.
@6
It’s still a lot of signatures and the Constitution Party does not have the money or the manpower.
I think the Greens and Libertarians both being on the ballot gives voters more choices than Texas has had in most recent elections, does it not?
@10 Third parties are going to need a “hail Mary” type play from the Green Party, since they’re the last party who can pick a “unity” ticket with the USA Parliament.
Join the team, YOUR name #1!
http://www.usparliament.org/signup.php
Any other plan represents the same old “me, me, me” psychology of politics as usual.
#10, you’re right. Texas presidential election ballots have not had any candidates on them except Dem, Rep and Libertarian, since 2000. In 2000 there were five candidates: Dem, Rep, Libt, Green and Reform.
Thanks Richard.
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I would think Texas would be a very fruitful state for the Constitution Party to be on the ballot in. I realize it’s a lot of signatures to get on the ballot (49,799), but it is still kind of surprising that they wouldn’t mount a strong effort to be on the ballot, especially in a presidential election year.