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How to Seek the Green Party’s presidential nomination

The GPUS presidential nomination occurs at the GPUS Presidential Nominating Convention every four years. In 2012 it is expected that the convention will occur sometime in the summer months of June, July or August.

At the Nominating Convention, delegates from state Green Parties cast their preferences for presidential nominees. It is the cumulative vote of those delegates that determines the GPUS nominee. Each state party has its own process by which it selects and instructs its delegates. Some processes will occur beginning in late 2011 and others will occur through the first half of 2012. Some state parties participate in formal party primaries established by state law, others conduct party conventions and/or caucuses to instruct their delegates and others utilize still other methods.

As these processes become finalized, the PCSC will provide information about them to all interested in pursuing the GPUS nomination. It will be up to potential nominees to decide how much they wish to participate in each states’ process.

At the same time, the PCSC will also provide a list to all state parties of those who are officially recognized by the GPUS as seeking the Green Party nomination. This list will be published on the GPUS website, available for the press and all interested others. The criteria and procedures for GPUS recognition of declared candidates can be found here.

At the GPUS presidential nominating convention, those seeking the nomination will be able to give speeches to the convention followed by a vote of the delegates. The process by which delegates vote to nominate is found here. The rules and procedures governing the speeches can be found here. The rules that govern the entire convention are found here.