From On the Wilder Side, via Green Party Watch:
Despite overly restrictive ballot access hurdles, the Green Party intends to be on the Texas General Election ballot this Fall. In the face of these restrictions, the Green Party of Texas has launched a controversial digital petition drive to reach eligible voters and draw attention to the absurdity and unconstitutionality of these laws that restrict voter choice and reasonable access to the ballot.
Texans can support ballot access and reforms by participating in the Green Party’s month-long Texas Digital Earth Day event online at txgreens.org/earthday through May 23, 2010.
“The ballot access laws in Texas are designed to limit democracy and to discourage people from actively participating in the political process,” declared Co-Chair Dr. Christine Morshedi. “In the past we have asked the state legislature to make modifications to the laws in various ways,” Morshedi continued, “but the corporate parties have made it clear that they do not want competition in November.”
The State of Texas maintains one of the nation’s most restrictive ballot-access policies. Currently, a political party seeking a place on the ballot must gather 44,000 valid signatures before the Texas Secretary of State will recognize it as an official political party. To further complicate the process, Texas requires that signatures be gathered during a very narrow time period of 75 days, and only registered voters who did not vote in the primary are eligible to sign. This “primary screen-out” provision is exclusive to Texas. All other states that previously had this provision have declared it unconstitutional.
“We want all registered voters in Texas to have more options in November than just the corporate-money- sponsored parties and their candidates,” said Co-Chair Thomas Muhammad. “Folks need to have faith that their elected officials will act in the public’s best interest. Those now in office have not done enough to deserve such trust,” Muhammad continued.
Morshedi concluded: “Power is rarely surrendered without struggle. We ask for all Texans, regardless of their political affiliations, to support a political process that is truly democratic. Help us show that we are not afraid of choices and we are not afraid of liberty!”
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thanks
it is going incredibly well considering…three more days!
looks like we might just make it.
The “two party system” from our view point down here in the grassroots, as it were. LOL
Works now. I like the graphic.
How’s it going BTW?
Oops, that was their mistake and I did not realize it when I copied the code. I’ll fix that, thanks.
and thanks for posting the article!
i know the link is there, but if you click on it, it goes to wilderside….not http://txgreens.org/earthday
kat, http://txgreens.org/earthday is in the body of the article. Wilder Side is where GPW found it and GPW was where I found it. We usually preface articles with sources when we are copying from other sites.
the link doesn’t work because whomever copied and pasted didn’t link it properly.
the link is http://txgreens.org/earthday (not wilderside.whatever)
or http://ballotaccess.txgreens.org
If the LP and GP would work together and people would stop voting straight ticket R & D; we’d likely shift this country in a more sane direction
paulie- I think Milnes has you confused with Devo!
1) I’ve never been your “nemesis”
2) You certainly don’t have anyone whipped, much less me.
GPW got it from me reposting it here previously.
Oh well, it got more comments this round, so it’s all good.
Online ballot access? Well, that sounds like a very good idea. Just like the idea of raising money online or computer voting. 🙂
He’s going to have to declare his PLASness or he’s just another dime a dozen Independent loser.
Have a nice trip! BTW, Dawson City is just a lovely place to live. [and you can get there twelve months a year on the main street, the famous ‘ice road’!]
the government needs a surveillance stellite & gps tower to keep track of you cell phone users too.
Unfortuntely there is probably a tower in Dawson. & I think at least one communications satellite goes little over the horizon.
I see NF is my new nemesis. It used to be paulie but I have him whipped.
Robert, if you have Internet in the Yukon, you can still post here. So it doesn’t matter where you are. But if you lose Internet access, I will definitely miss you. Even more than I miss Catholic Trotskyist.
An interesting question; could Charlie Crist end up being a PLAS candidate? He does have some Green and Libertarian ideas in his platform, vaguely, if you look hard enough. And he is facing Democratic, Republican and Constitution Party opponents, with actually a good chance of winning.
Crist-Bullock for President, 2012
Stay! Don’t go. Pleeeeze Don’t go. THAT’S what YOU ALL are supposed to say!
& You don’t know what you got till its gone!
Have a nice trip! 🙂 BTW, Dawson City is just a lovely place to live.
The link doesn’t work. I’m interested in this digital petition drive.
& this is a good example of how the GP & LP could COMPLEMENT each other. LP has plenty of ballot access in Texas.
Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico-accident waiting to happen. Now Obama is going to allow oil drilling off the east coast-a little south of the Jersey Shore? Asshole.
I’m sorry but I’ve got to say something about Sandra Bullock. WTF was she thinking? A big surprise her motorcycle psycho husband is a playa? She’s not Jewish yet slices her baby’s foreskin off? That is a barbaric practice religious connotations be damned. & I speak as a VICTIM of this nonsense. I have ZERO tolerance for circumcision. Male or Female. Anywhere in the world. No religion exception. & why is there no outcry of outrage from the black community? Everybody is all googoo gaga.
Morons. Losers.
I’m getting my inheritance soon & going to the Yukon. As far away as I can get.
Now, is THAT any way to talk? Tsk, tsk!
Just thought I’d check IPR once in a while to see any signs of life. No, same old boring nonsense. The losers will lose again. Makes me think of an anthill. Something always comes along to bring it sliding down & here come the ants to build it up again.I’m getting tired just thinking about it. Eenie miners.