http://new.time.com/4561508/jill-stein-green-party-election-day/
Nov 07, 2016
Time.Com. Tessa Berenson.
Jill Stein is already looking past tomorrow's election.
The Green Party candidate, who has a polling average of about 2% heading into Election Day, chuckled at the prospect of an outright win Tuesday. She said she's hoping for 5% in election returns, and beyond that, she's planning to push for reforms in the presidential debate commission and to help pave the way for future third party candidates with a rank choice voting initiative.
Do you think the Green Party should allocate more resources to down ballot races in the future as opposed to presidential runs?
Races have to fund themselves, and what the presidential race does is help bring attention to the fact that we have down-ballot candidates. So running at the national level, in fact we are required to do that in order to get ballot status for our down ballot races. We don’t have a choice about this. But in addition, running at the national level does some very important things... We need to challenge these candidates. We have to stand up and hold their feet to the fire at the national level.
http://www.ncsl.org/documents/legismgt/elect/Canvass_Feb_2012_No_27.pdf
For Democratic and Republican candidates it is generally fairly straightforward to get on a ballot. In most states any party that receives a specified percentage of the vote in an election is automatically granted a spot on the next ballot.
But if you are an independent candidate or from a minor party, ballot access‖ is a whole different and more difficult kettle of fish.
(At state level
0.01 of a percent point of the vote count in a presidential election can make a big difference for a Minor Party)
https://www.michigan.gov/documents/sos/2016_Ballot_Access_Information_for_Presidential_Candidates_487894_7.pdf
In Michigan If they hit the percent point in the vote count. That means The GP doesn't have to start all over again in Michigan. Ie: Re Registering as a new political party. All the work they did to get the signatures for this election instantly qualifies the party to automatic ballot entry on elections in michigan state from now till 2020.
If you're GP. This means you don't have to do every thing, all over again, from scratch.
Thats why they're doing it.
Al Pacino. Any Given Sunday. Inches.