Green Party presidential candidate denied spot on Nevada ballot

CARSON CITY — Jill Stein, the Green Party nominee for president, was speaking at a forum today in Las Vegas about the same time the party learned it lost an appeal to get her name on the Nevada election ballot.

The Secretary of State’s Office said today the party failed to gather enough signatures of registered voters for Stein to appear on the ballot. Wayne Thorley, deputy secretary of state for elections, said the party fell 647 signatures short of the 5,431 required.

Julia Hammett, an official with the Green Party in Nevada, said, “We’re going to the next level. It ain’t over yet.”

The next level is the court system.

The party said it submitted 8,700 signatures of voters and questioned the method used by officials in Clark County to disqualify many names on the petition.

Hammett said Stein is on the ballot in 25 states, and work is underway to qualify her in five other states.

The Green Party’s platform calls for a guaranteed minimum income, a 100 percent green economy and a 50 percent cut in military spending.

Stein was in Las Vegas today for a forum at Caesars Palace organized by the Asian American Journalists Association and the Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote groups. Others scheduled to appear were former President Bill Clinton, speaking for his wife and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton; Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes, a surrogate for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump; and Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson.