Howdy y'all! Welcome to another episode of Redneck Gone Green! We're joined to night with Gloria Mattera as we discuss the ins and outs, struggles, and goals of the Working Families Party. Thank y'all for joining and remember, feel free to join in on the conversation by writing to us in the comments section

On March 12, the New Mexico Secretary of State determined that the Green Party of New Mexico is a qualified minor party.  The law required parties that ran a presidential candidate to poll at least one-half of 1% for president last November.  The initial election returns had said the party met the vote test by three votes, but later the official results were revised and said the party had missed it by six votes.  The reason for the ambiguity had never been explained.

First, our sincere thanks to all of you who helped with petitioning, whether it was out in the street collecting signatures, spreading the word on social media or sending in a donation. The Green Party of New York (GPNY) accepted the challenge of collecting 45,000 valid signatures, which meant at least 25,000 over that, to place Jill Stein on the ballot for the Green Party. We were not going to be defeated just because Cuomo and the Democratic majority State Legislature stole our ballot line by passing a change in the election law under the cover of the pandemic. 

A bill to require ranked choice voting for all congressional primary and general elections has been introduced in both houses of Congress. The U.S. Senate sponsor is Peter Welch (D-Vermont). The two chief sponsors in the House are Jaime Raskin (D-Maryland) and Don Beyer (D-Virginia).

It would require ranked choice voting in both primaries and general elections, so that the current top-two systems in California and Washington would need to be revised. Furthermore, it says that if a state uses systems without party nominees, at least three candidates must be allowed to advance to the general election.

Yesterday we sent out some exciting ballot access updates that we wanted to make sure you didn't miss.

First, we got the news that we WILL be on the ballot in Georgia. The Secretary of State wrote a letter confirming that we qualified - we beat another of the anti-democratic party’s attempts to kick Jill and Butch off the ballot!!

We have some exciting ballot access updates. First, we got the news this morning that we WILL be on the ballot in Georgia. The Secretary of State wrote a letter this morning confirming that we qualified - we beat another of the anti-democratic party’s attempts to kick Jill and Butch off the ballot!! 

On September 3, the Indiana Green Party asked for rehearing en banc in the Seventh Circuit, in the party’s ballot access case. Indiana Green Party v Morales, 23-2756. Both the U.S. District Court and the Seventh Circuit had upheld the 2% petition requirement even though the state had presented no evidence in support of the law, and even though the party had submitted a great deal of evidence. That evidence, which is uncontested, establishes that no statewide independent petition, or petition for an unqualified party nominee, can succeed without the expenditure of approximately $500,000.

Carson City, Nevada - The Nevada State Supreme Court has ruled to bar Dr. Jill Stein and the Green Party from the ballot in 2024.

In their 5-2 decision, justices ruled that the Green Party should not appear on November ballots because the petition forms they used did not include a line for signatories to attest that they are registered voters in their county of residence.

• Georgia puts Cornel West, Jill Stein and Claudia De la Cruz on the state's presidential ballots

• Georgia voters are likely to be able to choose from six candidates for president

ATLANTA -- Georgia voters are likely to be able to choose from six candidates for president after Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Thursday put Cornel West and Claudia De la Cruz back on the ballot and ruled that the Green Party's Jill Stein had qualified by another route.

• A Georgia judge’s rulings barring third parties from the presidential ballot reflect strategic efforts by both major parties to maintain control.

A Georgia judge ruled that several independent and third-party candidates failed to qualify for the 2024 presidential ballot this week. The decisions were in response to lawsuits filed by the Georgia Democratic Party challenging the four candidacies, while Republicans threw legal support behind keeping one of them — a socialist — on the ballot.