Green Party challenging removal from Arizona ballot

greenpartyBy Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services/Arizona Daily Star

Absent a federal court order, Arizonans may not get to cast their ballots this year for any Green Party candidates.

Party officials missed Thursday’s deadline to turn in sufficient signatures on petitions to maintain their status as a recognized party, leaving Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians and the Americans Elect as the only ones guaranteed to have a place on the ballot.

State law requires a political party to have membership totaling at least 5 percent of the votes cast for governor or president in the most recent statewide election. Based on the 2012 presidential race, the Green Party needed to have 21,499 people registered.

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