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A NEW POLITICAL PARTY?
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| Contributor | The Oncoming Storm |
| Last Edited | The Oncoming Storm Aug 15, 2006 11:11am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Knoxville News-Sentinel |
| News Date | Tuesday, August 15, 2006 05:10:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Scroll down the page ---
Martin Pleasant, who won nearly 35 percent of the vote as an Independent for a County Commission seat, is trying to determine whether that's enough votes to qualify for the Green Party to be recognized as a local political party.
The procedures for recognizing a political party on the state or local level say a candidate must receive at least 20 percent of the total vote cast for the office for which he was a candidate or one year within an election the local political party must file for recognition with the county election commission a petition with 5 percent of the registered voters of the county or municipality in which it seeks to nominate candidates.
"That's 11,000 voters - a daunting task," Pleasant said. He ran for 9th District, seat B, on the County Commission, which was won by incumbent Paul Pinkston.
Regan Cothern, an elections attorney with the state Coordinator of Elections Office, said she believes a new local party must first file at the state level before a party can be recognized locally. That's a different set of procedures. |
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