legal risks facing the Unified Green Party of Georgia’s slate
Even after surviving legal challenges to our standing as a registered political organization brought by the Democrats who sought to keep Jill Stein off the Georgia ballot, we still face an existential threat to our existence posed by the Stein campaign and the national green party. To understand what is at the root of that conflict, we urge that you review the links on this page.
To understand how the Stein campaign is sabotaging Green Party organizing in Georgia in their choice of strategy, one need only read the nine page complaint brought against the Unified Green Party of Georgia by the same democrats who challenged us.
Our own open records requests and the experience and testimony of our own party’s leadership reveal the veracity of the factual assertions of this complaint against this splinter group fraudulently using a name deceptively similar to our own. Were the democrats before the election to prevail in this suit now pending before the Fulton Superior Court, it will result in Stein’s removal from the ballot and instructions being issued that Georgian votes cast for her campaign not be tabulated. When the suit is finally resolved after the election, it will mean that Greens will not benefit from credit for your votes, adversely impacting on our future capacity to place candidates on the ballot for your consideration.
The Georgia Green Party is currently on appeal on another matter to the Georgia Supreme Court, and continues to discuss further legal strategies to defend its name and ballot line.
We urge you to join us and help us build independent political power in Georgia.