3rd party/Indie ballot access megathred

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

It's good enough to get him into the free and equal debate (In 2012 they let in the Justice nominee even though he only had like 145 EVs of ballot access but got to 270 via write ins.). The CPD is irrelevant because he'll never poll at 15%.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

This idea that someone who gets their name on 270 EV ballots should be in the debates is dumb.  Getting your name on those ballots isn't a particularly difficult barrier.  You need a couple people to collect signatures for you and a fair amount of money, that's all it really takes.

I can understand that sentiment, but they should at least make the polling standard more fair and sensible. It makes no sense that the % required to get federal funding for the next election is 5% (and the number to secure access on a given state's ballot for the next election is generally somewhere in that ballpark), but the % required to debate is 15%.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Independent I believe does. Write-In varies state by state. Some states count everything, others require that a candidate pay a fee or meet a smaller signature requirement, others require that the total of all write-in votes is greater than the total for any given on-ballot candidate, still others only count write-ins in recount/court order situations.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Today is the deadline to submit 5.000 signatures for the VA ballot.

The VA Green Party submitted more than 11.000 signatures, of which ~70% will be found valid (based on recent signature checks in other states).



Current map:

http://www.jill2016.com/ballot_access

Also, ID has officially announced that Stein is on the ballot.

Do you know if McMullin submitted anything?

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Johnson is now on every ballot except Kentucky and Rhode Island, both of which are due September  9. Stein has missed IN, NC, OK, GA, NV and SD.

The libertarians don't list themselves as on the ballot in Connecticut or New Hampshire. I think they're just waiting for official notification, but still.

This is the official libertarian ballot access map:

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

^ The Kentucky Deadline is Friday:



http://ballot-access.org/2016/09/06/libertarian-and-green-presidential-petitions-submitted-in-kentucky-libertarian-petition-already-approved/


The Libertarians are on in 49 states: