For Immediate Release

For more information, contact Andy Ellis, 240-285-0843, [email protected]

August 5 – This morning representatives from the Maryland Green Party submitted 16,727 signatures of Maryland voters to the State Board of Elections in Annapolis. This total far surpasses the 10,000 signatures required by state law.

Volunteers and professional signatures gatherers have been collecting signatures for nearly two years. The party will know the results of the state's verification process within the next twenty days. 

"This submission was the culmination of the work of dozens of party leaders, hundreds of volunteers and paid professionals collecting signatures, and over sixteen thousand Marylanders who support the Green Party and want a pro-peace, ecologically focused, and justice minded party ballot-qualified and organizing in 2024 and 2026," said Andy Ellis, one of the coordinators of the ballot access drive. 

If enough signatures are verified, the party will be eligible to nominate candidates for federal, state, and local office for the 2024 and 2026 election cycles. In addition to the signatures, Green Party representatives submitted nomination certificates for Claudia Barber (Circuit Court Judge, Anne Arundel County), Nancy Wallace (U.S. House of Representatives, District 8), and Renaud Brown (Baltimore City Council, District 14). 

The party has also submitted paperwork to nominate Jill Stein for President of the United States. The Green Party's Presidential Nominating Convention will be held later this month. Stein won all five of Maryland's delegates to that convention in May and is the party's presumptive nominee. 

The Green Party has participated in every Presidential election in Maryland since 2000, and in four of the last five Gubernatorial elections. Dozens of Green Party candidates have also run for local, state and federal office. In addition to its 2024 candidates, the party is planning to once again participate in the 2026 Gubernatorial election and is working to recruit candidates for future elections as the 2024 campaigns proceed. 

For more information, contact Andy Ellis, 240-285-0843, [email protected]