§ 5101 Party Qualification Threshold

• •If a political party has very few registered voters (less than 1/15 of 1% of all voters in the state), it can't be in the next primary election.
• •The party is considered 'abandoned' by voters if it doesn't meet this number.
• •The Secretary of State will remove the party's name from ballots and other official lists.

Imagine there are 1,000,000 registered voters in the state. A small party called 'The Pizza Party' only has 50 registered voters.

The Pizza Party has way fewer than 1/15 of 1% of all voters (which would be 667 voters), so it won't be on the ballot for the next primary election. The state will act like The Pizza Party doesn't exist for that election.