August 12 is the California deadline for independent candidate petitions. Because California has a top-two system, independents may no longer petition to get on the November ballot, except for President. The statewide petition requires 178,039 signatures. No one submitted such a petition, except that Rocky De La Fuente submitted approximately 2,000 signatures. He is suing California in federal court over the deadline and the number of signatures. No one has completed the California independent presidential petition since 1992. De La Fuente is the first presidential candidate to challenge the California independent petition, which was written in 1976. The law before 1976 was even more difficult, and Gus Hall, the Communist Party presidential nominee, challenged the old law in 1972 and got the law improved somewhat.
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Richard, on Wikipedia under the 2016 presidential race, someone put that De La Fuente is on the ballot in California. I don’t believe this is the case. Anyone can edit these posts so I think that’s what someone did. De La Fuente does not hold a ballot line in California at this moment does he?
And now someone actually just edited that he’s not on in California which I’m reasonably sure is the case. Not sure why California was listed in the first place by someone.
Sorry Bradley. Someone had edited my map, thinking that everywhere that De La Fuente filed a petition or lawsuit would have him on the ballot. I fixed it.
Thanks Leonardo. Good job on keeping up with it as well. I like to look at it for all the third party candidates and see where they’re succeeding in getting on the ballot.