The Green National Committee has voted to place the Green parties of Montana and Louisiana on temporary inactive status after both affiliates went several months without participating in national business. Several items before the committee have failed this year due to lack of quorum.
The separate proposals were originally introduced by the Green Party’s Accreditation Committee in June, with the voting phase for both articles closing July 5. Results published this week show the proposal relevant to the Green Party of Montana passed 51-1, with five abstentions, while the proposal impacting the Green Party of Louisiana passed 53-2, with three abstentions. In both, individual opposition votes and abstentions were scattered across state and caucus delegations.
The proposals were put forward in response to a lack of participation in Green National Committee business by the two affiliates. The Accreditation Committee said the Green Party of Louisiana had not participated in an online vote of the National Committee since August 4, 2025. The Green Party of Montana has also been similarly inactive, though the committee did not specify when that inactivity first began.
Under Green Party rules, any accredited state party that either fails to cast votes for six months or does not send delegates to two consecutive National Committee meetings risks being assigned temporary inactive status upon the recommendation of the Accreditation Committee. Those state affiliates relegated to that status still keep their Green Party accreditation and receive national correspondence whenever possible, but are no longer counted toward National Committee quorum and lose the ability to vote on proposals. Much of the same is also true for recognized affinity caucuses, though there are several key differences in the process.
That failure to participate has in turn created quorum issues for the national party, with the Accreditation Committee stating that accounting for nonvoting states complicates the Green National Committee’s ability to properly act on party business. Since the beginning of the year, at least five Green National Committee proposals failed to move from discussion to the voting phase because quorum was not reached. In several of those cases, quorum failed by only one or two affiliates.
When the two measures were first introduced, items that failed due to quorum issues included a March proposal to create a formal party committee tasked with lobbying Congress for the impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and a May proposal calling for reparations to Iran, Lebanon, and Gaza. While discussion was underway, a sixth item that would have repealed an older vote also failed due to lack of quorum, though that more recent instance was due to more than just the two affiliates.
Now under temporary inactive status, the Green parties of Montana and Louisiana reserve the right to regain their prior recognition by appointing delegates to the National Committee and notifying the national party secretary. However, in the event either affiliate remains inactive for one year, party rules then allow the Accreditation Committee to recommend a separate formal disaffiliation vote.
As of Monday afternoon, neither affiliate had publicly addressed the results of the vote.
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