Jill Stein of the Green Party gained access on the ballot in Connecticut today, adding direct access to 7 more electoral college votes. As far as ballot access, she now has it in 39 states plus Washington D.C., which combine for a total of 458 electoral votes.
Finally, after a few days of quiet, some new data about Jill Stein and the Green Party!
A new Marquette University Law poll in Wisconsin shows Stein polling at 7% in that state. Go Wisconsin!
Also, below is a completely up to date ballot access map for Jill Stein (as of today). Dark green she is on the ballot (38 states plus DC), orange are states (3) where she is an official write-in candidate.
Reports coming out of the Virginia Green Party say that the state has verified enough signatures to get Jill Stein on the ballot there. The announcement will come Monday.
This provides direct access to another 13 electoral college votes, bringing her ballot (non-write-in) access to 451 electoral votes nationwide--she is on the ballot now in 38 states plus Washington D.C.
Also, two days ago the Geen Party of Wyoming submitted signatures to get Stein on the ballot there.
Yet another daily update on the Jill Stein and the Green Party front!
Today, Stein gained ballot access in two additional states--Idaho (4 electoral votes) and Alabama (9 electoral votes). These additional 13 votes bring her total electoral vote ballot potential count up to 438 as she now has direct ballot access in 37 states plus Washington D.C.
Another day, more steps forward for candidate Jill Stein of the Green Party.
Stein is now officially on the ballot in the state of Delaware! That brings her total number of "on the ballot" states to 35 plus Washington D.C. Delaware adds access to 3 electoral college votes, so I believe she is now has direct access to 425 electoral votes (not including the 3 write-in states).
More movement today on the Jill Stein front.
Idaho officially has it's signatures filed now, and reports are that the number of signatures needed (1,000 I believe) have already been counted and verified by the state internally, but verification continues with the additional signatures submitted. We should hear about Stein gaining ballot access in Idaho in the very near future. This is pretty much a sure thing now.
Today, Jill Stein and the Green Party gained official ballot access to 5 additional states. This brings the total number of states with ballot access to 34 plus Washington D.C., and a total ballot access to 422 electoral college votes.
This is up from direct access to 382 electoral votes this past weekend, and 357 two weeks ago. The climb continues.
For those who are attempting to keep tabs on the rise of Jill Stein, I've tried to congeal the latest polls over the past couple of weeks here.
I wrote a short advocacy piece for Jill Stein (and 3rd parties in general) for voters in safe Red or Blue states (it's tailored to CA since it's where I live) that I thought I would share. The core of the argument is math, although there are certainly a million good moral reasons (but we really have to tailor our arguments to who we are trying to convince, and those are people afraid that if they vote for anything other than Clinton, Trump will be elected):
