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The Green Party of Arkansas is the state party organization for Arkansas of the Green Party of the United States. With the November 2008 election of Richard Carroll as representative for the 39th District (Little Rock) in the Arkansas House of Representatives, the Arkansas Green Party gained its first ever state representative in the state's history and currently the only elected state representative of any U.S. Green Party. Greens achieved their first electoral victory in Arkansas in 1992 when Stephan Miller was elected Alderman for Fayetteville, Ward 1.〔()〕 He was joined on the City Council in 1996 by Randy Zurcher when he was elected to represent Fayetteville, Ward 2.〔()〕 In 2006 the party ran candidates for statewide offices for the first time. Jim Lendall, their candidate for governor, was an Arkansas legislator for eight years as both an independent and Democrat,〔(The Echo - Jim Lendall )〕 before joining the party in the spring of 2005.〔(Green Party of Arkansas )〕 All of the Green candidates were denied ballot access when the party turned in petitions containing 10,000 signatures. The party went to court with the help of the state ACLU in order to get on the ballot.〔http://www.acluarkansas.org/content/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=11〕 The state required 10,000 petition signatures for independent candidates, but signatures from 3% of those who voted in the previous gubernatorial or presidential election for Third Party candidates. On 23 August 2006 a federal judge in Little Rock agreed and declared the Third Party rule unconstitutional, ordering the state to place Green Party candidates on the ballot.〔http://www.acluarkansas.org/content/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=13〕 *Governor - Jim Lendall - 12,774 1.65% *Attorney General - Rebekah Kennedy - 33,386 4.40% *Secretary of State - Ralph 'Marty' Scully - 22,773 2.99% *State Treasurer - Brock Carpenter - 28,861 3.82% *Auditor of State - Michael Bolzenius - 106,515 15.13% *Commissioner of State Lands - Robert David Lewis - 126,135 18.08% 〔(2006 General Election Results )〕 == 2007 - 2008 == The party began its party petition for 2008 on July 28, 2007. Under a law passed earlier this year, party petitions require 10,000 valid signatures and must be completed in any 60-day period that the group chooses. in 2006 the law permitted four months.〔(Ballot Access News » Blog Archive » Arkansas Greens Start Petition on July 28 )〕 On September 26, 2007 the Green Party of Arkansas submitted 17,197 signatures to the secretary of state's office. Assuming there are at least 10,000 valid signatures, the Green Party would then be a qualified party in Arkansas for 2008, able to nominate for all partisan office in the state, by convention.〔(Ballot Access News » Blog Archive » Arkansas Greens Submit Petition )〕 The secretary of state's office had 30 days to check and verify the signatures,〔(Arkansas News Bureau - Green Party submits signatures to get on 2008 ballot )〕 and on October 17, the Arkansas Green Party was notified that its petition has been certified.〔(Ballot Access News » Blog Archive » Arkansas Says Green Party is On Ballot )〕 2008 was the first time the Green Party had a separate primary ballot in Arkansas.〔()〕 There were four candidates filed to run in the presidential primary Cynthia McKinney, Kent Mesplay, Kat Swift, and Jared A. Ball.〔()〕 In January 2008, Ball withdrew from the campaign and endorsed McKinney,〔(Jared Ball Ends Campaign in Support of Cynthia McKinney : )〕 but his name was not removed from the ballot. The presidential primary was held on Super Tuesday, February 5, 2008. The results of the primary were as follows:〔(Arkansas Secretary of State | www.ARElections.org )〕 Jared A. Ball (Green) 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「Green Party of Arkansas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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