The Rhode Island Town Clerks have not finished validating independent presidential petitions, but have already determined that the Libertarian presidential petition has enough valid signatures. See here. Thanks to Walter Ziobro for the link.
The Rhode Island Town Clerks have not finished validating independent presidential petitions, but have already determined that the Libertarian presidential petition has enough valid signatures. See here. Thanks to Walter Ziobro for the link.
Congratulations to Pat Ford and the Rhode Island LP!!
It seems that LPNational sent out a tweet about 50 states but then removed it. Is the LP still waiting for certification somewhere?
The town clerks of Rhode Island say the Libertarian petition has enough valid signatures, but the party is waiting for the Secretary of State to say she agrees. There is no plausible fear that the Secretary of State won’t support the town clerks’ work. But the party wanted to be super-legalistic about the announcement.
Those numbers in the “total” column signify the total number of certified signatures that the RI Secretary has physically in hand from the towns. The towns are reporting their validations before they physically ship the nomination papers to the state secretary.
Looks like by those numbers, the Alliance Party will also qualify.
The petitions in RI have to be picked up from all of the city/town clerk offices, and delivered to the Secretary of State’s office before the RI SOS will officially declare that any candidates have qualified for the ballot.
I’m confused as to why the link shows only one elector for Alliance and one elector for Socialism & Liberation. The other three each have four electors listed.
@Andy Yeah but it’ Rhode Island. Just a quick bike ride at most. 😉
WHERE ARE RI AND DE ON A WORLD MAP — USE MICROSCOPE OR BUST.
RI – SEE OLDE DORR’S WAR — EARLY 1840S — RESULT 1844 RI CONST.
NOTE ELECTOR DEFINITION AND GERRYMANDER LANGUAGE.
In Massachusetts, the petitioners have to pick the nomination petitions from the 300+ towns, and deliver them to the state secretary, but, I believe in Rhode Island, the towns will ship them themselves.
The city/town election clerks will mail you the petition signatures back IF you provide them with self addressed stamped envelopes beforehand. If you do this you need to figure out the exact postage cost before you give them the self addressed envelopes. All of the New England states do the petitions by city/town, except for statewide major party primary petitions in Vermont, as those go straight to the Secretary of State’s office, but the minor party/independent petitions there have to be separated by city/town and turned in at that level.
And the picked up from the cities/towns and delivered to the SOS.
I was referring to Massachusetts in the post at 10:09 PM on 9/8/20, but I think the same applies to Rhode Island, as well as the rest of the New England states.