According to this story, Kanye West is circulating a petition to be on the ballot for president in New York, with the partisan label “Birthday Party.” Thanks to the commenters for this link. The requirement is 30,000 signatures, due July 30, Thursday.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
He should have come up with a better name than Birthday Party.
What would you suggest?
Kanye West as an independent would be better than Birthday Party.
He is strongly pro-Life. Birthday Party is a perfect name.
Most people will not associate Birthday Party with being pro-life.
How about NUTCASE Party ???
– for all directions — North, South, East and esp West ???
Are KW lawyers as baaaade as baaade losing LP and Green Party lawyers in ballot access cases ???
I made a mistake in my previous comment on another topic. I thought that Kanye was trying to to be the candidate of the independent party of New York. I was wrong and it seems that l misread the News article that l was responding to.
I still would like to see him clinch the nomination of some of these third parties. AIP will choose a candidate on 15th August. The front runner seems to be centrist candidate, Rocky de la Fuente. I won’t mind if he gets the nomination. If he does not get it then l will root for Kanye West. By the way lndependant candidates Jade Simmons and billionaire candidate, Brock Pierce don’t seem to be actively pursuing more states in order to get ballot access. Even billionaires are encountering big obstacles during this election cycle in order to get more ballot access.
I thought NY was now 45,000 signatures. I know Cuomo reduced independent petitions to 70%, but even that would be 31,500 was there another edict on presidential petitions?
Governor Cuomo’s order says statewide petitions are 30,000. The 70% formula applies only to district and local partisan office.
He should just pay off the Independence Party to nominate him instead.
Kanye and Brock started too late. The ballot access laws are difficult. They both should have started running at least 6 months earlier.
If they Birthday Party wins will Kanye wear his Birthday Suit to the inauguration?
New York has eight political parties. Wouldn’t it have been simpler simply to go to one of them?
-Brandon Lyon, As Winger said, he set the petitions requirement at 30,00 near the start of the moth, after cancelling the April petition period. This is actually an increase from previous years, where the requirement was 15,000. He set the 45,000 threshold as part of his budget this year, after the same threshold was struck down by the NY State Supreme Court after an electoral finance committee had enacted the change without consideration from the Legislature. If the current round of lawsuits (particularly the recent WFP lawsuit) succeed, you could easily see the threshold be reduced to the original 15,000 signatures of previous elections, and perhaps even go to two-third from there, settling at 10,000, but we will have to see
-Andy, NY has specific petitioning windows in April. The window was suddenly cancelled this year a few days into the month, which Governor Cuomo announced during one of his press conferences.
-Liberty Green, I can totally see that happening! the Independence Party is such a scam, people need to be incredibly stupid to vote for them. Hopefully they won’t re-qualify one of these elections…
-Tim, The only party he would even have a chance at running as is the Independence Party, a party so dumb most members don’t even know they are in it (a bill was introduced in January to ban the use of Independence in party names as to not confuse independent voters, but it never manifested). The Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, and Green Parties will oh have nominate their national party’s candidates, the Conservative party has already endorsed Trump, the WFP endorsed warren, ad later Sanders, but will inevitably give their line to Biden after he wins the Democratic Nomination, and the Save America Movement doesn’t plan on fielding a candidate for the 2020 cycle. The Independence Party is highly suspect, and it might end up giving him the line just so they gain exclusive access to his voter pool, as opposed to their previous cross nominations (although they netted more votes for Johnson the the Libertarian Line did in 2016, see NY election results)
Great.
Balls of fire.
How about a party name of ROGUE BLACK MAN
It’s birthday party tho