Culpeper resident Tim Cotton, founder of the Piedmont Green Party, credited his volunteers with gathering 10 percent of the signatures Stein needed to get on the ballot.

“We are overjoyed that we are able to offer Virginia voters more choice at the ballot box,” he said in a news release. “We are thrilled with the flood of support coming from longtime Greens, former Bernie (Sanders) supporters, and disillusioned independents.”

A former Democratic activist, Cotton said Clinton and Trump are so disliked that the American public is rejecting the two-party system. He said Stein and Baraka embrace progressive policies.

Veteran petitioner Glen Kirk, of Reva, helped collected names to get them on the ballot.

“As an experienced volunteer in two states over five presidential elections gathering signatures for the Green Party, I have come against some very harsh reactions, but in this election that was not the case,” he said. “A strong majority of voters I encountered were receptive to my presentation and anxious to sign my sheets.”

Stein is a Harvard trained physician while Baraka is founder of the U.S. Human Rights Network.