New Hampshire Filing Closes for Presidential Primaries

November 20 was the deadline for presidential candidates to file in New Hampshire. Thirty Republicans filed, and twenty-eight Democrats filed. By contrast, in 2012, 31 Republicans filed and 14 Democrats filed. Candidates need no petition; they merely pay a fee of $1,000.

The New Hampshire Secretary of State encourages many candidates to file, because the more candidates file, the more revenue the state receives. Gardner even sometimes telephones lesser-known presidential candidates and encourages them to file.

Yet when the Libertarian Party sued New Hampshire over ballot access, the state claimed that the restrictive rules were needed to keep the ballot from being “cluttered.” In 2014, New Hampshire was one of five states with no minor party or independent candidates for any statewide office. The others were Alabama, California, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania (and Washington had no statewide offices up).

Here is a link to the New Hampshire Secretary of State’s page. Under “election information” click on “candidates filed.”


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New Hampshire Filing Closes for Presidential Primaries — 8 Comments

  1. The United Coalition has more than 10,000 people waiting to be elected and we welcome these large numbers of people from all parts of the globe.

    The USA Parliament has a cap at 10,000 names for Member of Parliament.

    We are welcoming large numbers and like the state of New Hampshire, we don’t have any problems of which I am aware with working with large numbers of people.

    Regarding revenue, we have balance between free and monetary participation.

    We want to help the state of New Hampshire, and all voters, about a new way that will help to include all the USA Presidential candidates in 2015.

    http:www.usparliament.org

  2. We noticed Honorable Sam Sloan is on the NH ballot as a POTUS candidate.

    I have emailed him about our team.

    He was a Libertarian candidate in 2012 like me, but he switched to Democratic and I to Republican.

    We will move his name into the correct group of Democratic MPs (MP=member of parliament) very soon and we will try to attract him back into the fold.

  3. I see that Keith Judd, Sam Sloan, Steve Burke, Rocky De La Fuente, John Wolfe, and Vermin Supreme all filed.

    This will be Judd’s first participation in the process since being released from prison. Sloan runs for everything, Burke served on the Town Council of Macomb, NY. He was removed from the Democratic primary ballot for the 21st District last year and then endorsed Matt Funiciello. De La Fuente is a businessman from San Diego who’s had his campaign advertisement on Politics1 for over a month. Wolfe got 41% of the vote against Obama in Arkansas in 2012. Vermin Supreme is the most astute politician who has ever lived.

    It’s going to be a fun primary.

  4. OK skip past the usual Ogle spam. Richard, can you do something to limit him from constantly posting about his imaginary parliament? I am really wondering about why Wells didn’t file in New Hampshire. It seemed like of the ‘minor’ candidates, he was running the strongest campaign. Is he going independent or did they just drop the ball?

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