Florida has several ballot-qualified parties that have not nominated anyone for President. It had been thought plausible that either the Independent Party, or the Independence Party, might nominate him for President. But the Florida Secretary of State’s office said neither of those parties nominated anyone for President.
This Politico story says that in the states in which McMullin is on the ballot, it is now too late for him to replace his stand-in vice-presidential nominee with his actual vice-presidential nominee. The stand-in, Nathan Johnson, never wanted to actually run for vice-president. The reporter, Daniel Strauss, was unaware that there is case law from Florida, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Virginia, South Dakota, and Alaska which says independent presidential candidates (or independent candidates for Governor) have a right to replace their stand-in vice-presidential or lieutenant governor running mates with an actual candidate later. In 1980, John Anderson was permitted to replace his stand-in for vice-president, Milton Eisenhower, with former Wisconsin Governor Patrick Lucey, even though Lucey wasn’t chosen until August 27, 1980. Lucey’s name was on all ballots except South Dakota’s.
I gathered from the articles, that it wasn’t that the states don’t allow names to be replaced, but that in many of them it is now too late to replace the name.
That’s right. Although it is odd that some states are already printing their ballots, and yet a few other states haven’t even held their primaries for congress and state office yet.
Do you have a full list of qualified candidates in Florida?
Here’s the link to the Florida election board list: http://dos.elections.myflorida.com/candidates/CanList.asp
Castle, Clinton, De La Fuente, Hoefling, Johnson, La Riva, Stein & Trump are on the ballot, several others are write-ins.
Most of the deadlines the article mentions were on early September. Maybe the states in which he got on the ballot were the states with the earliest deadlines to change a VP.
I thought the Socialist Party had also filed in Florida. I know the deadline was supposed to be pushed back due to the hurricane that made landfall.
I don’t see Hoefling, La Riva, or Soltysik on the list.
They’ve just changed something, as all of the candidates now have ‘Certified’ as their status and it wasn’t like that this morning.
If you rerun the query for all including WIT/DNQ Hoefling & La Riva both show as ‘Removed’ even though the America’s Party and Socialism & Liberation are listed as parties.
Soltysik doesn’t appear anywhere.
“If you rerun the query for all including WIT/DNQ Hoefling & La Riva both show as ‘Removed’ even though the America’s Party and Socialism & Liberation are listed as parties.”
Weird. Is the Florida Secretary of State keeping them off the ballot? Or is this a weird temporary thing? I’m thinking of contacting the La Riva campaign about it.
And as far as I know (correct me, Richard, if I’m wrong), the Soltysik/Socialist Party USA campaign was never guaranteed a spot on the final ballot: instead, they were attempting to get party status again. However, La Riva/Party for Socialism and Liberation and Hoefling/America’s Party, were given the green light by the Secretary of State and were operating under the impression that they had achieved ballot access there.
How many state ballots did Hoefling get on thus far?
My count is Hoefling on in three: Arkansas, Louisiana and Colorado.
https://medium.com/@Chris_Powell/who-is-on-the-presidential-ballot-where-5d0d084dc498#.sykdkruz1
Unlike Daniel Nordby, the state’s previous general counsel, Florida’s current general counsel is refusing to certify the presidential tickets of any minor parties that aren’t recognized as a “national committee” by the Federal Election Commission, which is probably why the Party for Socialism and Liberation and America’s Party of Florida — both of which submitted complete lists of electors and other qualifying paperwork in a timely manner — haven’t been certified.
The American Solidarity Party, incidentally, has been struggling to qualify here in Florida since August 12th, but has pretty much run into a brick wall.
Turns out Gov Scott put his thumb on the scale.
“Interestingly, minor parties that are viewed as likely to cost Hillary Clinton votes were allowed to remain on the ballot, while those that were expected to take votes from Donald Trump were stricken.”
#EvanHelpUs
I have an actual ballot that just arrived for mail in voting. The 6 candidates listed are Trump, Clinton, Johnson, Castle, Stein and De La Fuente.
I hate early voting.