Thirty candidates will be listed on the January 10, 2012 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary ballot. This is the second-most crowded presidential primary ballot in U.S. history. The most crowded ever was the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary ballot in 1992, when thirtysix candidates were listed. See this story.
The New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary only has 14 candidates listed, the smallest number in the New Hampshire Democratic primary since 1980.
New Hampshire has very strict ballot access laws for the general election, which courts have upheld on the theory that voters will be confused if too many candidates appear on the ballot. In 2004, only three presidential candidates appeared on the New Hampshire November ballot.
How do the poor suffering voters in the dead of winter vote in NH ??? — paper ballots ??? scanner ballots ???
Can voters will brains vote absentee ???
How many candidates have caught the flu and died due to walking around in the snow and ice in NH — esp. being macho with no winter hats ???
Unfortunately 30 too many.
Civility is so refreshing. Try it. It will help the whole election process.
Yep, Perry doesn’t have a chance in New Hampshire
The NYT Had an interesting blurb about Gary Johnson’s efforts to get on this ballot yesterday.
How many feet of snow already in NH due to the latest NE storm — with about 10 more weeks to go ???
How EVIL crazy is the U.S.A. Prez nomination system as viewed by foreign folks ???
P.R. and App.V.
ONE election
NO super moron caucuses, primaries and conventions.
Why is BAN wasting space with Republicrap news? Probably for the same reason I am wasting my time responding.
#7, the lenient ballot access laws for New Hampshire’s presidential primary are very relevant to the ongoing struggle to get the courts to recognize that voters are NOT confused if there are more than two candidates for any particular office on a ballot!!
Believe it or not, laws that have prevented all minor party candidates for US House to be on the Georgia ballot ever since 1943 have been upheld on the theory that voters will be confused if that law is disturbed. Ditto for a North Dakota law that has kept all minor parties candidates for state legislature off the November ballot since 1976 (that decision came down just last month, from the 8th circuit, and talked about the fear of ballot crowding and voter confusion).
# 8 When will some genius lawyer get the SCOTUS robot party hacks to note that —
Separate is NOT equal — also for ballot access.
Brown v. Bd of Ed 1954 — a mere 57 years ago — like centuries now.