Richard Grayson Certified as Nominee of Green Party in Arizona's Sixth Congressional District

Thanks so much to Arizona Secretary of State and his legal staff, as well as to attorneys at the American Civil Liberties Union, for helping us in our quest to be officially recognized as the duly-elected nominee of the Green Party for the Sixth Congressional District of Arizona.

L'shanah tovah to everyone else who is celebrating the Jewish New Year.

Richard Grayson Super-Official State-Certified Candidate for Congress in Green Party Primary in Arizona's Sixth Congressional District

Blog for Arizona's Craig McDermott is reporting

Richard Grayson of Apache Junction has filed as a Green

for the Congressional seat currently held by Republican Jeff Flake in CD6. As no other Green candidates have yet filed for the seat, Grayson needs 221 votes

in August's primary to qualify for the general election ballot (221 is the number of sigs he would have needed to appear on the primary ballot).

A look at the Arizona Secretary of State's listing of all candidates in the August 24 primary confirms this.

Arizona Green Party Registration Rises

Richard Winger at Ballot Access News reports,

The Arizona Secretary of State has again started tracking how many registered Green Party members there are in Arizona. The Secretary of State last posted any data for registered Greens in November 2009. Because the party failed to poll 5% for President in November 2008, and because it failed to get its registration up to two-thirds of 1% by November 2009, it lost its qualified status and was removed from the voter registration form in almost all counties. Also the state stopped tallying Greens, although the people who were registered Green continued in that status.

Now that the party is back on the ballot, the Secretary of State has started tallying Greens again. Surprisingly, the party now has more registrants (both on a raw number basis and on a percentage basis) than it did the last time it was on the form. The new registration data shows 4,345 members, which is .142% of the state total.

By contrast, the last data from before the party was removed from the voter registration form showed 4,261 members, which was .137%. Generally when a party is removed from the voter registration form, its numbers decline.

Andy's comment corrects this a bit:

. . . unless Arizona changed their voter registration forms after 2009, Arizona voter registrations do not have voter registration check boxes on them. Instead, Arizona voter registration forms just have an empty box where people who are registrating can fill in the name of the political party banner which they want to be registered under. The Democrats and Republicans do not even have check boxes.