Endorsements of candidates outside of nomination process.
Andy Ellis-Baltimore City-Delegate-He/Him
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The death of 7th Congressional District representative Elijah Cummings while in office may cause there to be a special election that Maryland Greens can not particpate in because the party currently does not have ballot access. The MGP Policy on what to do in this situaton is unclear.
There are three proposals on the table about how to address this.
Two of them make policy for all circumstances regardless of ballot status and the third makes provisions specifically for how the Party may endorse in the absence of Ballot Access.
There will be a week long decison making period and we will use Ranked Choice Voting to decide between them.
Poll Created Sun 20 Oct 2019 5:49PM
How should the Maryland Green Party address endorsements outside of the nomination process? Closed Sat 26 Oct 2019 9:02PM
Results
| Results | Option | Rank | % of points | Points | Mean | Voters | ||
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The Maryland Green Party may endorse the candidacies of registered Green Party members (persons registered as Green, Other - Green, or any other State Board of Elections designation meant to indicate Green affiliation) seeking to be placed on a General Election ballot by submitting a General Election Candidate Nomination Petition. | 1 | 39.6% | 19 | 2.4 | 8 | ||
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In the absence of a Green Party ballot line, the Maryland Green Party may endorse the candiacies of unaffiliated candidiates or the candidiates of non-corporate parties. | 2 | 39.6% | 19 | 2.4 | 8 | ||
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The Maryland Green Party does not make non-nominating endorsements of candidates for public office. This does not preclude any local chapter of the Maryland Green Party from endorsing candidates, nor does it preclude individual Green Party members from making personal endorsements. | 3 | 20.8% | 10 | 1.3 | 8 | ||
| Undecided | 0% | 0 | 0 | 2 |
8 of 10 people have participated (80%)
Margaret Flowers (Maryland, Delegate Reporter) (she/her/hers) Sun 20 Oct 2019 5:55PM
| 1 - In the absence of a Green Party ballot line, the Maryland Green Party may endorse the candiacies of unaffiliated candidiates or the candidiates of non-corporate parties. | ||
| 2 - The Maryland Green Party may endorse the candidacies of registered Green Party members (persons registered as Green, Other - Green, or any other State Board of Elections designation meant to indicate Green affiliation) seeking to be placed on a General Election ballot by submitting a General Election Candidate Nomination Petition. | ||
| 3 - The Maryland Green Party does not make non-nominating endorsements of candidates for public office. This does not preclude any local chapter of the Maryland Green Party from endorsing candidates, nor does it preclude individual Green Party members from making personal endorsements. |
This is what I am thinking at present. I believe we should be able to endorse non-Greens from non-corporate parties in races where we do not have a Green Party candidate running. For example, if a sister party such as UPPP runs a candidate.
Mary Tyrtle Rooker Sat 26 Oct 2019 7:06PM
| 1 - In the absence of a Green Party ballot line, the Maryland Green Party may endorse the candiacies of unaffiliated candidiates or the candidiates of non-corporate parties. | ||
| 2 - The Maryland Green Party may endorse the candidacies of registered Green Party members (persons registered as Green, Other - Green, or any other State Board of Elections designation meant to indicate Green affiliation) seeking to be placed on a General Election ballot by submitting a General Election Candidate Nomination Petition. | ||
| 3 - The Maryland Green Party does not make non-nominating endorsements of candidates for public office. This does not preclude any local chapter of the Maryland Green Party from endorsing candidates, nor does it preclude individual Green Party members from making personal endorsements. |
I'm not sure there should be only one policy. Perhaps more than one of these could be approved...
Andy Ellis-Baltimore City-Delegate-He/Him Mon 21 Oct 2019 9:19PM
I support the third option for three reasons
1) it only applies to situations in which we do not have ballot access
2) it is not dependent on people being able to opt in to some designation like “other-green", which can be confusing and is not well documented.
3)it allows us flexibility to consider someone from a party like Ujima or Bread and Roses or PSL if we wanted to(and they had ballot access and we did not)It further allows us a productive debate about how we define “non-corporate Party”
My second choice is the second option, because I think it is more than useful than not to be able to make endosrements when we do not have ballot access.
Kevin Zeese (Delegate, Maryland Green Party) · Mon 21 Oct 2019 1:35PM
I'm leaning to the following ranking:
1 - In the absence of a Green Party ballot line, the Maryland Green Party may endorse the candiacies of unaffiliated candidiates or the candidiates of non-corporate parties.
2 - The Maryland Green Party may endorse the candidacies of registered Green Party members (persons registered as Green, Other - Green, or any other State Board of Elections designation meant to indicate Green affiliation) seeking to be placed on a General Election ballot by submitting a General Election Candidate Nomination Petition.
3 - The Maryland Green Party does not make non-nominating endorsements of candidates for public office. This does not preclude any local chapter of the Maryland Green Party from endorsing candidates, nor does it preclude individual Green Party members from making personal endorsements.