12.22.23 Salt Lake City – The Green Party of Utah (GPUT) received notification from the Utah Lieutenant Governor’s Office on December 21, 2023, that the threshold of 2,000 registered voter signatures was met to gain ballot access as a recognized political party in Utah.

"We are thrilled to hear this news, and believe this is a step forward for democracy in Utah as we offer voters not just more choices, but better choices than those presented by the political duopoly of the Democratic and Republican parties," stated Dee Taylor, Interim Chair of the GPUT. "This represents the better part of about six month's worth of work during which we have had earnest conversations about Utah's choices with many voters in our state who are very eager for change."

Attached please find the final determination from Secretary Fontes.  The Arizona Green Party has met the minimum signature requirement and is qualified as a new party for federal, statewide, and legislative races in the 2024 Primary and General Elections.

We will add this information to our voter registration and candidate systems as well as our website.  Please let me know if we can provide other information.

Thank you!

Lisa M. Marra, CPM, CERA
Deputy State Elections Director

On December 7, 2023, the Pima County Elections Department certified that the Green Party filed the required number of signatures to qualify for party recognition in Pima County and be recognized as a new political party for the 2024 election cycle. They will be eligible for representation on the ballot in the August 6, 2024 Primary Election and the November 5, 2024 General Election.

The Green Party of Delaware wants to make sure that we ave a ballot line for our candidates in 2024, from our Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates, other federal candidates, to down ballot local candidates we hope to recruit and support.

To do this, the state requires that at least 1/10 of 1% of all registered voters are registered in the Green Party. If the calculation were made today, we would fall a mere 46 registered Greens short of the threshold.

On November 28, 2023, the Arizona Green Party submitted its petition for party status. It had approximately 63,000 signatures. The requirement is 34,116. Assuming the petition is valid, the party will be on the Arizona ballot for 2024 and 2026. In Arizona, when a party submits a petition, it gets the next two elections.

As we watch the Democrats and Republicans unite in dumping weapons into every conflict zone in the world (at US taxpayer expense) and carelessly issue ever more oil and gas drilling permits (as the world burns), there comes a time to stand up and do something about it. The Missouri Green Party needs you to volunteer to help collect signatures to put the Green Party on the Ballot in 2024!

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Outside the bustle of the Columbia Farmers Market, Les Hahn was busy selling registered voters on an alternative political party’s quest to make the Missouri ballot in 2024.

The Missouri Green Party, with none of its statewide candidates winning at least 2% of the vote in 2018 and 2020, failed to make Missouri’s ballot last year.

• May Threaten Third Party Ballot Access in New York State

• Libertarian and Green Parties contend that a two-thirds supermajority in New York legislature and no ballot access for third parties makes it a one-party state.

The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a decision to deny the writ of certiorari petition for an appeal brought forth by the Libertarian Party of New York and the Green Party of New York, concluding their legal battle over New York State’s ballot access thresholds. The petition, which was filed on March 13, 2023, sought to challenge the increase in ballot access requirements implemented in 2020.

PHOENIX — The Arizona Green Party is collecting signatures to register as a new party after losing party recognition in the state in 2019. If the party is successful, it will be ballot eligible for the 2024 elections.

Parties looking to qualify for recognition must submit at least 34,127 valid signatures to the Secretary of State’s office by Nov. 30. In order to ensure enough signatures are valid, the Green Party is aiming to collect 70,000 signatures by that date and had collected 41,601 as of Sept. 30.

The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear a challenge to New York's 2020 election reform laws that raised the threshold for third political parties to appear on the ballot.

In the past, to achieve statewide ballot status, minor political parties needed to earn 50,000 votes for their candidates in the previous election. In other words, they needed 50,000 votes to qualify for the ballot every four years – rules that have been in place for decades. The law passed three years ago now requires that minor parties garner 130,000 votes or 2% of votes cast. Failure to do so would mean removal from the ballot in the next cycle. In addition, they demand that qualifications occur every two years, rather than four, at the gubernatorial and presidential elections.