Here is a newspaper story about the Americans Elect petition in Iowa. The story, oddly enough, does not mention the detail that the Iowa petition carries stand-in presidential and vice-presidential candidates. Iowa is one of the eleven states in which a group can’t get on the November ballot unless it circulates a petition that lists particular candidates, so Americans Elect is forced to use a pair of stand-ins. The stand-ins in Iowa are not famous individuals and they are not the slightest bit interested in running for office. They are just individuals who are part of the organization and are willingly lending their names.