1. Surprised that Mimi Soltysik, the Socialist Party’s nominee, is not on that list. He lives in California and the SPUSA has typically sought the PFP nomination. Also, where is Roseanne Barr?

2. Roseanne Barr dropped out in favor of Bernie Sanders I believe, and I think there were signs from within the Peace and Freedom Party that her candidacy was not nearly was welcome this time around.

3. What would happen if Jill Stein simultaneously won the Green and P&F nomination?

4. Ben, I’m not positive about this but I believe that California allows fusion for the office of President, although it does not for any other office. Someone please correct me if this is wrong.

5. Tom, SP-USA terminated it’s participation in Peace and Freedom soon after the 2012 convention. I’m pretty sure they would not want to be on our ballot.

6. The SP candidate was approached, and declined to be listed. So were many other candidates of smaller left parties and groups. The Peace and Freedom Party officers did a good job of exploring the possible campaigns for the party’s nomination, and reported all the serious candidates who actually wanted to participate. Just a coincidence that they are all women. Yes, California does allow a presidential candidate to be listed as the candidate of more than one party. (Though unless the parties agree on a joint slate of electors, the name will be listed twice, once with each set of candidates for presidential elector.) The question of multi-party nominations for other offices is now obsolete, as Top Two eliminated party nominations. (But it was formerly legal, though the rules made it impossible to be on the ballot in more than one party primary. Occasionally, someone was nominated in another party by write-in, and was listed in November with both party names.) I believe that according to Green Party rules in California, they are not supposed to list a candidate who is on another party’s primary ballot. I assume they will ignore this rule for Jill Stein. Silly, divisive rule anyway. The PFP has welcomed candidates for president who are on other party’s primary ballots, in one case having Cynthia McKinney and Ralph Nader both on the PFP ballot although they were also listed on the Green ballot. (Nader got the PFP nomination that time.) If Stein wants the nomination, she should get cracking in running people for PFP Central Committee. Those elected will make the actual decision. Plenty of time to run, and one need only be registered PFP for 30 days beforehand, under the new rules. Both Gloria La Riva supporters and Monica Moorehead supporters are running for central committee, with La Riva supporters presently in the lead, apparently. But people have almost two months to turn in signatures, the deadline being March 11. It is likely that most central committee members will be uncommitted, but strong showings by a campaign can influence them strongly. Looks interesting.

7. In 1940 Wendell Willkie was listed on the November ballot in California as the nominee of the Republican and Townsend Parties. In 1928 Herbert Hoover was listed on the California ballot as Republican and Prohibition.

8. I think that the Green Party rule that Kevin Akin was referring to requires that the Presidential nominee of the Green Party can not be registered with another party

9. Kevin,

   Thank you for the helpful background. I never realized that (before top two), California had a backdoor way of getting a candidate on the general election ballot with two party labels, via a write-in campaign in one of the primaries.

10. Abolish the super time bomb Electoral College.
    Uniform definition of Elector in ALL of the U.S.A.
    Ballot access ONLY by equal nominating petitions – to get serious candidates.
    P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
    —
    Otherwise – more and more Civil WARS with monarch powermad robot party hack extremist candidates for Prez.

11. So no candidate from the Donner Party made the ballot?

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