Regarding Our Efforts in Georgia

Friends, we have had several inquiries now about why Georgia came up short, and we are relegated to write in status there. The only short answer is that not enough of the signatures we turned in were deemed valid by the Secretary of State’s office.

Unfortunately, even though we submitted over 11,000 signatures, only 5925 were deemed valid. 7500 were needed. We were not the only campaign to fail to make the ballot- Nonaffiliated candidate Rocky De La Fuente submitted 14,500 signatures and still did not meet the 7500 threshold.

Many of you remember that in March 2016, the US District Court lowered the number required from 54,000 to 7500- so we were very excited at the opportunity to make the ballot for the first time in history. But the petitioning process there is so difficult that even with the outstanding efforts of our Green Party organizers and paid petitioners, it wasn’t to be.

Georgia petition requirements are among the worst in the nation. The petitions need to be printed double sided on 8 1/2 x 14 pages. There has to be a separate page for each county, signers need to put their birthdates and residential addresses, and the sheets have to be notarized.

We have just received a disc from the state which identifies why signatures were not accepted. You can be sure we will be poring over that in the days to come.

We are now in the process of initiating a write-in education campaign and we will do our best to make sure every Georgia voter knows the correct way to cast a write-in vote.

Thank you for your support.

Rick Lass

Ballot Access Coordinator

Jill Stein for President

505-920-0540

NOTICE: Final deadline for petitions is 6:00 p.m. Monday (July 11) night. There will be a notary at XXX. Contact XXX

First, please click here to make sure you've signed up at our volunteer page to get Jill on the ballot. Check the box “I will petition to get Jill Stein on the ballot.”

Here's how you can get started to help get Jill Stein and the Green Party on the ballot in Georgia. We need volunteers to collect signatures from registered voters in Georgia on a specific petitioning sheet. All the information you need to self-start is available on this page, including how to get connected with other petitioners in your state.