Green Party of TN 518 Moore Avenue Nashville, TN 37203

One of the things that came up at our annual meeting was the need to have information on how we are hurt by not having a ballot line.

I can think of a few:

1) Political parties can form PACs with no registration fee, but others have to pay a substantial annual registration fee (around $100 or more if I remember correctly).

2) A few people have come up to me and said something like "I wanted to vote for the Green candidate but I couldn't remember his/her name."

3) Local press tend to give automatic coverage to political parties but generally give little/none to independent candidates (even with substantial prodding on the part of the campaigns).

Other reasons why we would want a ballot line?