Sign in: Twitter · Facebook · email · COMMITTEES
  • Green New Deal
  • Ballot Access
  • About
    • About
    • 2025 Green Party Annual National Meeting
    • We Stand For
    • Ten Key Values
    • Welcome
    • The Real Difference
    • State Parties
    • Steering
    • Caucuses
    • History
    • Fix Our Broken System
    • National Meetings
    • Staff
    • Privacy
    • Strategic Plan
  • Store
  • Elections
    • Elections
    • 2025 Candidates
    • Run 2025
    • 2026 Candidates
    • Victories!
    • Why Register Green
    • Officeholders
    • Elections Database
    • Past Presidential Candidates
    • 2024 Nomination Process
  • Platform
  • Newsroom
    • Newsroom
    • Press Releases
    • Press Inquiry
    • State & Local News
    • Green Pages
    • In The News
    • Messaging
    • Photos & Videos
  • Take Action
    • Take Action
    • Contact
    • Downloads
    • Organizing Tools
    • Petitions
    • Register Green
    • Volunteer
    • Ecoaction Committee
    • Peace Action Committee
    • Coordinated Campaign Committee
  • Calendar
  • SubStack
  • SEARCH
  • SITE Map
  • DONATE

Pages tagged "ny_ballot"


Supreme Court won't hear challenge to New York law on ballot access for minor parties

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.

Read more

The Democrats’ Third-Party Massacres

“The hardest thing I’ve ever seen the Democrats fight for is to keep a disabled Marine combat veteran off the ballot.”

– Matthew Hoh, Green Party candidate for U.S. Senator in North Carolina

The last week of June 2022 brought more strikes against an American democracy already in deep crisis. Democrats blocked access to the ballot for the Green Party of North Carolina and seven independent gubernatorial tickets in New York.

Read more

Big names knocked off NY ballot for governor

The NY Board of Elections has ruled that petitions filed by all of the minor political parties to get candidates on the ballot in November were invalid and failed to meet the very high threshhold of 45,000 valid sigatures statewide.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor and former Green Party candidate for President; Larry Sharpe, the Libertarian Party for Governor and former Libertarian Party candidate for vice-president; and Harry Wilson, who recently lost the republican primary for Governor, was placed on the ballot by the UniteNY party. It is unclear whether Wilson would have accepted the UniteNY party line, but the point was moot as Unite joined with the Green, Libertarian, Freedom, and New Visions candidates in being denied ballot access this year.

Read more

Greens Cry Foul on Ballot Access Process for Independent Candidates

The Green Party of New York gubernatorial ticket expressed its outrage today at the ballot access process for independent candidates for Governor and Lt. Governor in New York.

On Monday, June 27, the state Board of Elections ruled as invalid the independent nominating petitions of the Green Party and all four other gubernatorial candidates who are not already on the ballot as the Democratic and Republican candidates on the grounds of insufficient signatures. The other petitions were for the Libertarian, Unite, Freedom, and New Visions candidates.

Read more

Democrats challenge Green Party's ballot petition for governor

The Democrats have challenged all the independent petitions for Governor after ramming through changes to the law to make it largely impossible for independent third parties to get on the ballot for statewide office. Howie Hawkins, the Green Party nominee for Governor, discusses the Democrats' ongoing efforts to suppress electoral challenges in New York.

Read more

Greens damn Democrats for anti-democratic assault on ballot access

June 9, 2022 – The Green Party of New York gubernatorial ticket decried today the objections filed by Democrats against their independent nominating petition.

“We are not surprised that the objections were filed by Nassau County minions of the chair of the Nassau County and State Democratic committees, Jay Jacobs. Jacobs has been on a crusade to wipe the Green Party off of New York ballots. I don’t want to hear anymore hypocritical crocodile tears from anti-democratic Democrats like Jacobs about Republican attacks on voting rights. Party suppression is a form of voter suppression. It’s what authoritarian governments do. It is what Jacobs and the Democratic Party are doing,” said Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor.

Read more

Gloria Mattera is the Green Party Nominee for Lieutenant Governor

2022-candidates-Gloria-Mattera.jpg

Former Governor Cuomo and the state Democrats have passed laws to prevent independent third party candidates from running for statewide office, among the hardest ballot access laws in the world. Still, the Green Party of New York is mounting a challenge. We talk with public health care worker Gloria Mattera, the Green Party nominee for Lieutenant Governor.

Hudson Mohawk Magazine, Media Sanctuary
Troy, NY
June 1, 2022

Read more

Green Party files to run for Governor and Lt. Governor

ALBANY, NY – The Green Party of New York filed nominating petitions for their candidates for Governor and Lt. Governor on Tuesday, saying that the Democrats’ failure to address critical issues in the 2022 state legislative session highlighted the need for an independent progressive alternative party in New York.

Read more

Suppressing ballot access is a violation of voting rights

On April 19, members of the Green Party of New York began soliciting the 45,000 voters’ signatures they need to gather in 42 days by May 31 to place the party’s gubernatorial ticket of Howie Hawkins for governor and Gloria Mattera for lieutenant governor on the ballot. Thanks to Democratic legislators who tripled the signature and vote requirements for ballot access at the urging of then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo as part of the state budget package in April 2020, New York now has one of the most difficult independent nominating petition systems in the nation and the world.

Read more

Let’s get the Green ballot line back!

ALBANY, NY – Have you seen the news? Howie Hawkins and Gloria Mattera, the team that won us our ballot line in 2010, are back!

They’re running as a ticket for Governor and Lieutenant Governor on a Green Ecosocialist Platform - and they need your help!

Read more

  • ← Previous
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • Next →

Powered by people like you

Zach Vaughn Tate Westenbarger Mesi Ej Yolanda Molina-Franco Natalia Portal Kilgore Trout Jozlyn Bodine Richard Auerbach, MD Sam David Cesar Rojas


This site maintained by Union Labor

The Green Party of the United States

PO Box 75075, Washington, DC 20013
202-319-7191

CALENDAR
CONTACT
NEWSROOM
SITE MAP
SUBSCRIBE
STORE

Sign in with Facebook, Twitter or email.

Created with NationBuilder

Follow @GreenPartyUS on Twitter