Groups around the country were gathered outside state capitols Dec. 19 to object the election of Donald J. Trump to the presidency through the Electoral College vote, but Shauna Weiss was outside the Oregon Capitol to promote a party she says would look out for the interests of Oregon’s poor.

Holding a sign that said #PovertyParty, Weiss, who favored U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., for the presidency, said she hoped the party would “create community again.”

Weiss said that the Salem-based group was trying to form a 501(c)(3) organization and “turn it into an actual political party.”

Oregon has five minor political parties, including the Working Families Party and the Pacific Green Party.

In order to become a statewide minor party, the party must file a petition with the Secretary of State’s Office and gain enough signatures to constitute 1.5 percent of the total votes cast in the state in the last gubernatorial election.