On March 30, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed HB 272. For 2020 only, it extends the independent presidential petition deadline from August 13 to August 20.
It also gives qualified parties more time to certify the names of their presidential and vice-presidential nominees. The new deadline for that is August 27, which happens to be the last day of the Republican presidential convention. The old date was August 19, so if the bill had not passed, the Republican Party would have had to certify its nominees before they were officially nominated.
One week really us not much of an extension. Note that prior to tge 2016 election, the independent presidential candidate petition in Alabama was September 6th. I suspect part of the reason the moved the deadline to the earlier date that they did was so we could not get any petition signatures at colleges, as they moved it to before the college start date.
BTW, how is Rocky doing in his independent petitions?
Not much so far for Rocky.
Rocky start, I guess you can say.