Ballot Access News is reporting that the Natural Law Party of Mississippi has given their ballot line to Socialist Party USA candidate Brian Moore.
The Natural Law Party of Mississippi is one of only two remaining state affiliates of the once formidable, by third-party standards anyhow, Natural Law Party. The other affiliate is in Michigan, where ballot-access laws allow a party to continue fielding candidates so long as a statewide candidate receives at least 1% of the total for the most recent winning candidate for Secretary of State (in practice, about 0.5%).
In 2004, the Natural Law Party of Michigan nominated Socialist Party USA standard-bearer Walt Brown, but this year they’ve given their ballot line to Ralph Nader. In 2004, Ralph Nader made the Michigan ballot as an independnet. He was unable to take the ballot line of the Reform Party, of which he was the national nominee, since its Michigan affiliate had already imploded in a power struggle between moderates and Buchananites.
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1 richardwinger // Sep 7, 2008 at 12:52 am
No, in 2004 Nader was on in Michigan as an independent. Although the national Reform Party nominated Nader in 2004, in Michigan Nader couldn’t get the Reform line. There were two factions of the Reform Party. One faction nominated Nader but the other faction refused. The Michigan Secretary of State said she couldn’t decide which faction was the legitimate faction so she left all Reform Party nominees off the ballot for all office. Therefore, Nader lucked out that the Republicans had circulated an independent petition for him. And the Reform Party went off the ballot since it flunked the vote test, obviously, since it had no nominees on for any office.
2 G.E. // Sep 7, 2008 at 12:57 am
Darn it, Richard. I was about to blast you with an “I’m right, you’re wrong!” but alas, I should have known better. Nader was on as an independent in Michigan in ‘04.
3 G.E. // Sep 7, 2008 at 1:00 am
thanks for the correction.
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4 donald raymond lake // Sep 10, 2008 at 5:01 pm
GE, plz start thinking b4 typing.
It never was comic, but it has always been ‘funny’
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