Three Independent Presidential Candidates Pay $35,000 to Qualify for Oklahoma Ballot

This is the first year in which it has been possible for an independent presidential candidate to get on the Oklahoma ballot without a petition. Instead they can qualify with a $35,000 filing fee. On July 15, the deadline, three independent presidential candidates paid their fee and submitted a list of presidential elector candidates. They are Brock Pierce, Kanye West, and Jade Simmons.

Here is the website for Jade Simmons. She lives in Texas. The website says she will only try to get on the ballot in states that don’t permit write-ins for president.


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Three Independent Presidential Candidates Pay $35,000 to Qualify for Oklahoma Ballot — 24 Comments

  1. Noticeably absent are Howie Hawkins and Rocky De La Fuente, perhaps they thought it better to conserve their resources for petitioning elsewhere where they might get more votes.

  2. Howie’s campaign believes it has qualified for matching funds, but has not received them yet.

    Rocky does have the money, so this must mean he’s not going for quite that many states.

  3. Howie is pretty dead in the water until and unless he gets that federal welfare. But not as dead in the water as Blankenship, who’s just checked out as far as anyone can tell.

  4. In the world of Covid, you would expect these campaigns to not let a filing fee state slip through their fingers.

  5. Howie Hawkins filed a lawsuit today against the amount of the Oklahoma filing fee. I haven’t blogged it yet because I am waiting until it is on pacer, probably Thursday morning.

  6. Thanks for the update Richard! For Hawkins at least it makes sense then.

  7. Or how about that time trump ran. Remember that? I can’t believe some people took that seriously.

  8. I hope Kanye files as a write-in here in West Virginia. There is no cost for it other than a notarized application, envelope and stamp. Richard, would love to see a chart of state-by-state write-in application info.

  9. Damn, and I thought Ogle had gone to Mars or become Ventura’s new campaign manager or something.

  10. IMO, all the states should have filing fees as an option to petitioning. As it is now, both candidates and election officials have to hire personnel just to process the petitions. A smart election department will realize that they can make it easier on everyone, and get some extra cash for their department by just charging to let candidates buy a line on the ballot.

  11. WZ — govt cost to check each sig ??? — even now with auto sig checkers —

    due to 2000 Bush v gore morons in Fl regime.

    Some States have entire State voter regis systems — ie copy of ALL local precinct records.

    Any Fee more, equal, less than such Sig cost ???


    Govt Party regis lists = Stalin/Hitler PURGE lists.

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