The Green Party will appear on the Nevada ballot after a U.S. District judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the NV Dems.
The Green Party submitted 29,500 signatures in June to be included on the ballot. The NV Dems claimed the Green Party submitted a majority of signatures collected last year before being re-certified in Nevada.
"We are excited to say that the ruling has been made in our favor and we will offer an anti-genocide, pro-worker, climate action choice for Silver State voters! However, the Democrats have drained some of our hard-earned resources in this fight," presidential candidate Jill Stein said in a Facebook post.
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JUNE 18, 2024:
The Nevada Secretary of State's Office says the Green Party has collected enough valid signatures to appear on this November's ballot.
The Nevada State Democratic Party has filed a lawsuit against the Green Party and Secretary of State over the signatures.
The group claims the Green Party submitted a majority of signatures collected last year before being re-certified in Nevada. It also says the party didn't collect enough signatures from each county. Therefore, they should not qualify under Nevada law. You can read the Nevada Green Party's statement below -
"We turned in 29.5k signatures, nearly 3 times the required amount.
"We know we had the distribution needed, not only because we know what we submitted, but also because the counties and the state both certified them.
"The reason the FOIA request was incomplete from the SoS to the NV Dems is because the Counties had not returned all of the petitions to the state at the time of the request. The SoS is providing them as they come in. They will all be provided.
The submission of the NV Greens was on time, the NV SoS did not process it until Jan 10. Our committee filings are in order, and we have documents to that effect."
The Secretary of State tells us it cannot comment on ongoing litigation.
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Dr. Jill Stein announced her candidacy for president in November 2023.
“I’m running for president to offer that choice for the people outside of the failed two-party system,” said Stein, a physician from Lexington, Massachusetts.
Stein ran against Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016 as a Green Party candidate and received about 1% of the national vote. Some Democrats said her candidacy siphoned votes away from Clinton and helped Trump win, particularly in states like Wisconsin. She also ran for president in 2012.
Stein has never won statewide or national political office.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
