From Ballot Access News comes news that even through the Arizona Green Party was off of the registration form, they gained registered members.
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.
Third parties everywhere have experienced gains in registration numbers, but this is a particularly odd case.