On July 14, Ralph Nader turned in 18,000 signatures to qualify as an independent presidential candidate in South Carolina. The state requires 10,000. Nader is the first person to submit petitions as an independent candidate in South Carolina since 1992, when Perot also qualified as an independent in that state.
In 2004, Nader had received the nomination of the ballot-qualified Independence Party of South Carolina. This year, the Independence Party of South Carolina has equivocated about whom it wants to nominate for president. The party’s leadership has considered nominating Barack Obama, although it is unlikely that Obama will let any ballot-qualified party in South Carolina (other than the Democratic Party, of course) nominate him. The South Carolina Attorney General still hasn’t issued his opinion on whether two parties that jointly run the same slate of presidential electors, can have their vote totals added together.
Does the United Citizens Party still exist in SC? And if so, any word on if they will nominate a presidential candidate? Thanks.
The United Citizens Party already nominated Obama back in March. See the link above (in my signature) to the April 11, 2008 Ballot Access story. I suppose the same trouble will apply to the UCP as the SCIP.
Thank you.