abstract
| - The Green Party of Arkansas is the state party organization for Arkansas of the Green Party of the United States. Greens achieved their first electoral victory in Arkansas in 1992 when Stephan Miller was elected Alderman for Fayetteville, Ward 1 . She was joined on the City Council in 1996 by Randy Zurcher when he was elected to represent Fayetteville, Ward 2 . In 2006 the party ran candidates for statewide offices for the first time. Jim Lendall the Green Candidate for governor was an Arkansas legislator for eight years as both an Independent and Democrat , before joining the Party in the spring of 2005 . All of the green candidates were denied ballot access when the party turned in petitions containing 10,000 signatures. The party went to court with the help of the state ACLU in order to get on the ballot . The state required 10,000 petition signatures for Independent candidates, but signatures from 3% of those who voted in the previous gubernatorial or presidential election for Third Party candidates. On Aug. 23, 2006 a Federal judge in Little Rock agreed and declared the Third Party rule unconstitutional, ordering the state to place green party candidates on the ballot .
* Governor - Jim Lendall - 12,774 1.65%
* Attorney General - Rebekah Kennedy - 33,386 4.40%
* Secretary of State - Ralph 'Marty' Scully - 22,773 2.99%
* State Treasurer - Brock Carpenter - 28,861 3.82%
* Auditor of State - Michael Bolzenius - 106,515 15.13%
* Commissioner of State Lands - Robert David Lewis - 126,135 18.08%
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