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There needs to be some minimum qualifications to appear on the ballot to make sure that voters are not overwhelmed with too many choices to adequately vet. The petition process requires that a candidate demonstrate a minimum level of appeal to voters. The petition process also leaves candidates a path to access the ballot by direct consent of a percentage of the voters, without having to work through an existing political party.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Comment Instructions” _builder_version=”4.4.6″ background_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0)” custom_padding=”5px|10px|5px|10px|false|false” saved_tabs=”all” global_module=”479″]<\/p>\n Comments are welcome below. All comments must be respectfully written and not contain misinformation or fallacious reasoning. We welcome thoughtful dialogue of differences.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.4.6″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.4.6″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.6″][et_pb_comments _builder_version=”4.4.6″][\/et_pb_comments][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.4.6″ background_color=”rgba(123,247,212,0.2)”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.4.6″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.6″][et_pb_menu _builder_version=”4.4.6″ custom_padding=”|10px||10px|false|false” saved_tabs=”all” global_module=”228″][\/et_pb_menu][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.6″] There needs to be some minimum qualifications to appear on the ballot to make sure that voters are not overwhelmed with too many choices to adequately vet. The petition process requires that a candidate demonstrate a minimum level of appeal to voters. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}