The Green Party received just under 400 thousand votes to my knowledge so far, while the Libertarian Party received 1.2 million votes. So the party of AnCaps, conspiracy theorists, hyper-neoliberals, and former GOPers received 3 times as many votes as the greens and was on all 50 state ballots. They faced no challenges to their ballot access, while the greens were kicked off of a couple of ballots and didn't have what it takes to get themselves back on those ballots successfully. Those states where they were kicked off were battleground/swing states. 
          No one expected the greens to reach the promised land of 5%, but this showing by Hawkins/Walker was piss poor. I think they might have done as well as Stein 2012 and slightly better than McKinney 2008. When the high-water mark for the organization remains Nader 2000, who was on fewer ballots than Stein 2016, there needs to be a critical analysis of where you've been and where you're headed as an organization. One former organizer for this year's campaign said to me through Twitter that their campaign was mismanaged almost from the start. The person heading the campaign has been a polarizing figure within the GP for years.
          The Greens are not good at recruiting people of color (as a cofounder and former co-chair of the GPNJ Black Caucus, I would have some insight). It is also not good at recruiting workers outside of its environmentalist/ecosocialist circle. It's done much better with recruiting from the LGBTQIA community and white women, but not women in general. As a former green candidate and registered green, I think it's time to build something different.
            Been having discussions with a few folks about an all-Black or all-people of color formation in  New Jersey's big cities. Also, I've had a few conversations about a new progressive party at the local level. Something has to change, be it how membership is defined, possibly modifying the decentralized structure of state/local parties, changing the leadership at the national level, for me to believe the Green Party is salvageable after this. There are over 500,000 elected officials in the United States this year. The Greens have had under 200 throughout its entire existence. And most of those have been in California and a few other states. 
            Not sure how you should measure the success of a left third party in the US in the 21st century. 

In solidarity,
Jim Brash