Vermont-based Green Mountain Party is facing difficulty in getting qualified to appear on ballotFrom Ballot Access News:

The Green Mountain Party was formed earlier this year to influence politics and government in Vermont. It is fiscally conservative. Vermont has two methods for newly-qualifying parties to get on the ballot. If they show they are organized in any ten towns by the end of an odd year, they are ballot-qualified and can nominate by convention with no need for petitions.

Or, they can place nominees on the November ballot by petition. The nominees will have the party name on the ballot next to their name. Those petitions are due in August of the election year. The Green Mountain Party will not meet the deadline for having committees in ten towns, but it is free to use the petition method later this year if it wishes.

The party’s founders are seeking a new outlet for politics in their area, “We are frustrated with a nonresponsive, dysfunctional, financially out-of-control government that serves everyone but the people who elect them. To address these frustrations we have formed the Green Mountain Party, a local Vermont political party.” According to the Valley Platform:

Their party platform calls for controlling big money, limiting the influence of lobbyists, taxing lobbyists, taxing out-of-state funds donated to political parties and candidates and taxing political action committees (PACs). The platform calls for responsibility to the voters, effective use of tax money and common sense solutions plus the repeal of Act 46.