Here's the appeal decision, there will be no change, the Green Party must register 3% of popular vote or forever reest in peace (or find another name). Such is the law.
Decision: http://www.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/11/08/103106P.pdf
A candidate in Arkansas has two main ways to get her name on the ballot as a party’s candidate: She could run as the nominee of a state-certified political party, or she could declare herself part of a new political party and file a petition of 10,000 registered Arkansas voters’ signatures collected within a 90-day period.
There's a catch to being a new political party: a new party that fails to obtain 3 percent of the total vote cast in a gubernatorial or presidential election ceases to be a party.
From http://blogs.findlaw.com/eighth_circuit/2011/08/arkansas-green-party-ballot-appeal-rejected.html
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