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Benefits of a Green Ballot Line

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Mon, 06/01/2009 - 11:29 — Elizabeth

One of the things that came up at our annual meeting was the need to have information on how we are hurt by not having a ballot line.

I can think of a few:

1) Political parties can form PACs with no registration fee, but others have to pay a substantial annual registration fee (around $100 or more if I remember correctly).

2) A few people have come up to me and said something like "I wanted to vote for the Green candidate but I couldn't remember his/her name."

3) Local press tend to give automatic coverage to political parties but generally give little/none to independent candidates (even with substantial prodding on the part of the campaigns).

Other reasons why we would want a ballot line?