The Arkansas Secretary of State’s office has determined that the petition to place Jim Hedges on the November 2016 ballot as a presidential candidate is valid. This is the first time a Prohibition Party petition for a presidential nominee has succeeded since 1996. Although the party’s nominee for president appeared in a handful of states in 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012, in all those four elections all the states in which the party qualified did not require a petition (Florida, Louisiana, Colorado).
In 1996 the party completed petitions in Tennessee and Utah.
Hedges used the independent petition procedure, not the procedure for a minor party that wants to be on for President only. So his ballot label in Arkansas will be “independent.”
They keep reassuring me it is in the bag. We shall see.
“I think they told me it was just some minor paperwork thing in Mississippi and that they will be on.”
That’s what I heard too, but it’s been a while.
I think they told me it was just some minor paperwork thing in Mississippi and that they will be on.
Arkansas is not very difficult, 1k valid for the independent party petition.
My best wishes to Jim Hedges for a speedy recovery.
I take it you mean impressive that the party got on the ballot in Arkansas, not impressive that Jim has a shoulder injury.
Still waiting to hear what goes on with the party’s efforts for ballot access in Mississippi.
Impressive.
Something is wrong with one of his shoulders
Word from them is they will think about it next year.
Someone also told me Jim Hedges is in the hospital, and there is a comment at BAN saying the same thing. I don’t know in the hospital for what.
I wonder if the Prohibition Party will petition in Iowa? It only takes 1,000 signatures; plus 50 signatures from at least ten counties for a total of 1,500. It may be a bit restrictive having to petition in ten counties; but would like to see them on the ballot here in Iowa. Have they been on the Iowa ballot in the past?
Someone posted this at BAN:
The Prohibition Presidential ticket of Jim Hedges of Pennsylvania and Bill Bayes of Mississippi feels confident that it will also make the ballot in Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Colorado, and Tennessee.
The Prohibition Presidential ticket nominees have never failed in it’s 146 years of history to have been on at least one (1) state ballot with it’s presidential ticket since 1872. No other 3rd party in the United States can make this claim.
The Prohibition Party has finally outlived the “single gaugers” and now is becoming a “populist” party. While the Alcohol issue is still the signature issue of the party, more emphasis will be placed on American Independence and opposition to the United Nations, a better understanding of Constitutional Government, and informing Americans that a nation consists of a border, a language, and assimilation.
Someone else posted this:
They did know and did not care. There was some delay with getting the political group petition from the Arkansas SOS which involved some going back and forth, but eventually the Arkansas SOS did provide the correct form. In the day or two that it took to get that straight the prohibition party was asked if they wanted to wait and get the correct form so they would have their ballot label or just go ahead and get started right away and understand that they would be listed as independent, and they said get started and they did not care if their party name would be on or not. That made things easier for the petitioner on the ground but he would have qualified them either way.
Jim Hedges has accomplished more than Jack Failure ever did. I fully expect the Prohibition Party will be on in 5 or 6 states this year.
Over at B.A.N., Jed asks and Richard answers the question I had:
“”””Jed Ziggler
October 1, 2015 at 8:18 pm
What’s the difference between the independent petition and the minor party petition? Less signatures?
Richard Winger
October 1, 2015 at 9:23 pm
No difference at all. Both are due August 1, 2016. Both require 1,000 signatures. The Prohibition Party activist who arranged to get the petition blanks, and set up the petitioners, didn’t understand all the choices Arkansas gives groups.”””
So apparently they didn’t actually decide on “independent” over “Prohibition” as their ballot label– they were just ignorant of the fact that they could have had the latter if they wanted it.
Good for him!