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new process for getting on the ballot has ever been used in Georgia.\u00a0 It was created by an act of the most recent term of the Georgia General Assembly.<\/p>\n
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While preparing for Friday’s filing deadline, the party faced a challenge mounted by Democrat voters seeking to deny Green voters an opportunity to vote for their candidate of choice.\u00a0 They have raised a shifting array of arguments each intending that the Georgia Green Party not be able to offer Jill Stein and Rudolph Ware as its Presidential Slate to Georgia voters in the upcoming general election.<\/p>\n
The Affidavit was delivered, along with 299 pages of supporting documents by Hugh Esco, Secretary of the Party.\u00a0 As a witness at Thursday’s hearing Esco told the court,<\/p>\n
“I think it’s pretty clear that the Assembly wanted to make it possible for new political bodies, new political parties that have some base of support across the nation to participate in our presidential elections.\u00a0 I think that that’s a good thing and it ought to be applauded.”<\/p>\n
Additional pleadings are expected from both parties by noon, Monday.\u00a0 The Judge has asked for language for his proposed decisions.\u00a0 He also offered to consider additional arguments related to new issues not previously briefed and new exhibits offered without notice by petitioners.<\/p>\n
Blake Evans, Director of the Elections Division told Esco that he expected a determination by the end of next week.<\/p>\n
— 30 —<\/p>\n Georgia Green Party files ballot access paperwork On Friday, August 23rd, 2024, with a 3:33pm timestamp, the Elections Division accepted a Presidential Elector Nomination Affidavit, signed by Chairwoman Kristin Zebrowski, on behalf of the Georgia Green Party.\u00a0 This is the first time this<\/p>\n new process for getting on the ballot has ever been used in Georgia.\u00a0 It was created by an act of the most recent term of the Georgia General Assembly.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n While preparing for Friday’s filing deadline, the party faced a challenge mounted by Democrat voters seeking to deny Green voters an opportunity to vote for their candidate of choice.\u00a0 They have raised a shifting array of arguments each intending that the Georgia Green Party not be able to offer Jill Stein and Rudolph Ware as its Presidential Slate to Georgia voters in the upcoming general election.<\/p>\n The Affidavit was delivered, along with 299 pages of supporting documents by Hugh Esco, Secretary of the Party.\u00a0 As a witness at Thursday’s hearing Esco told the court,<\/p>\n “I think it’s pretty clear that the Assembly wanted to make it possible for new political bodies, new political parties that have some base of support across the nation to participate in our presidential elections.\u00a0 I think that that’s a good thing and it ought to be applauded.”<\/p>\n Additional pleadings are expected from both parties by noon, Monday.\u00a0 The Judge has asked for language for his proposed decisions.\u00a0 He also offered to consider additional arguments related to new issues not previously briefed and new exhibits offered without notice by petitioners.<\/p>\n Blake Evans, Director of the Elections Division told Esco that he expected a determination by the end of next week.<\/p>\n — 30 —<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Photo Credit: Rahul Bali, WABE <\/p>\n Photo Caption: Hugh Esco, party Secretary files with Georgia Elections Division, a ballot access affidavit under state’s new 20 state rule, with supporting documentation. Also pictured are Nicolas Northen (Assistant Deputy Director) and Blake Evans (Director).<\/p>\n Photo Credit: Rahul Bali, WABE <\/p>\n Photo Caption: Binder of Supporting Documents required by Affidavit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.wp.georgiagreenparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.wp.georgiagreenparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.wp.georgiagreenparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.wp.georgiagreenparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.wp.georgiagreenparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.wp.georgiagreenparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.wp.georgiagreenparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.wp.georgiagreenparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.wp.georgiagreenparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Binder](\"https:\/\/uat.wp2.georgiagreenparty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/GaGP_172g_affidavit_and_supporting_documents-Elections_Division-2024-Aug-23-1533pm.png-248x300.jpeg\")
\n<\/b>ready to offer ballot qualified opposition to war and genocide
\n<\/i><\/b>while fending off Democrats intent on excluding Jill Stein from the ballot<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n