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The Green Party of Arizona is the affiliate of the Green Party in Arizona. It was founded by Carolyn Campbell and others in the 1990s. The Arizona Green Party is perhaps best known for its strong stances on immigration. It proposes that the urban walls on the border be dismantled and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) repealed for the sake of the thousands of immigrants who die while trying to cross the border. The AZGP also paid to put two statements in an Arizona voter's guide on ballot initiatives and referendums in 2006. One statement opposed Arizona Proposition 107, which bans civil unions and the second favored Arizona Proposition 202, which raises the Arizona minimum wage to $6.75/hr. In 2006 the Arizona Green Party and the Pima County Green Party hosted the 2006 annual national meeting of the Green Party of the United States in Tucson, Arizona. The Arizona Greens had a 5 percent increase in registered members between November 2008 and April 2009, to 4,210 voters. ==Ballot access== In 2008, the Arizona Green Party gathered enough signatures to gain ballot access.〔http://www.webcitation.org/5amSbCrie〕 The party had worked with Arizona's ballot access laws, achieving ballot access for the 2000 election cycle, then losing it again in 2004. On March 6, 2008 the Arizona deadline for ballot access, the Arizona Green Party submitted 29,300 signatures on its petition for party recognition. The legal requirement is 20,449. On April 9, 2008 the Arizona Secretary of State announced that the Arizona Green Party had enough valid signatures to be recognized as an official political party. On February 10, The national Green Party’s ballot access committee had appropriated $4,000 to assist the Arizona Green Party's petition effort. The Arizona Green Party again qualified for the ballot in 2010 on April 15.〔(Ballot Access News - Arizona Says Green Party Petition is Valid )〕 It needed 20,449 signatures by March 11, 2010, and they tuned in 29,015 signatures to the Arizona Secretary of State.〔(Ballot Access News - Arizona Greens Submit 29,015 Signatures for Party Status )〕 On April 28, 2011, Governor Jan Brewer signed HB 2304, which says that when a new party qualifies, it is entitled to be on the ballot in the next two elections, not just the next election. As a result the Green Party is now automatically on the ballot for 2012, because it had successfully petitioned in 2010.〔(Ballot Access News - BALLOT ACCESS BILLS SIGNED IN 3 STATES )〕〔(Ballot Access News - Arizona Secretary of State Confirms that Green Party is On Ballot for 2012 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arizona Green Party」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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