Vox has this story, saying that Donald Trump could not run in Michigan outside the major parties in November if he had first been on the Michigan presidential primary ballot. The story is incorrect. Michigan does not bar independent presidential candidates from the November ballot because they ran in a presidential primary.
The Michigan sore loser law says, “168.695. No person whose name was printed or placed on the primary ballots or voting machines as a candidate for nomination on the primary ballots of one political party shall be eligible as a candidate of any other political party at the election following that primary.” The law has no application to candidates who seek to use the independent presidential procedure.
Major statutroy legal mess due to the party hack Electors for Prezs in Art. II, Sec. 1 and the 12th Amdt.
NO State/DC *nominates* Prez candidates.
The party hacks in each robot party hack certify that some hack has been somehow nominated — as a shorthand person representing the Electoral College hacks of such party hack gang.
Variations for *independent* Prez candidates and their Electoral College flunkee folks in each State/DC.
How soon before the gerrymander hacks in various State legislatures wipe out popular votes for the Electoral College hacks and take over as dictator oligarchs ???
See the 1796-1824 machinations about getting a Prez.
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Abolish the timebomb Electoral College.
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
Correction –
The party hacks in each robot party hack [State gang] certify — etc.
Texas does.
If Trump wants to file for the Texas Republican presidential primary, and later decides to be an independent in November, his Texas petition is free to name his wife, son or daughter as the independent presidential candidate. If that relative of Trump’s then won the November election in Texas, the presidential electors could then vote for Donald Trump in December in the electoral college.
Prez nomination / election stuff is becoming more and more EVIL byzantine —
due to the robot party hacks in the gerrymander State legislatures and the gerrymander Congress becoming more and more tyrannical and POWERMAD.
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Abolish the timebomb Electoral College.
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
Richard Winger is right about Texas. The late Governor George C. Wallace had to use this “trick” to get himself re-elected as Governor in 1966. He ran his wife – Lurleen Wallace- and she was listed as Mrs. George Wallace on the Primary and General Election Ballot. Everybody knew George was still the governor. Sadly, when Mrs. Wallace died in 1968, she technically was the governor, and Lt. Governor Albert Brewer took over. But as history records, George continued with his presidential campaign as a 3rd party nominee, won five states with 45 electoral votes, but ran again for governor of Alabama in 1970 and defeated the former Lt. Governor Albert Brewer. Gone are the days when politics were interesting. Donald Trump may bring some of that back if he stays in the race.
Anyone who voted in a presidential primary election would be ineligible to sign the petition.
Ivanka Trump will barely be age-eligible, may be a Democrat, and is Jewish. The NBC crowd will also object because her mother was not a US citizen when she was born.
Donald Trump’s current wife is not a natural-born citizen.
Independent candidates must name their vice-presidential and elector candidates as part of their filing.
@Richard: If Trump was going to use one of his family members as a stand-in, he would be best suited to use his oldest son Donald Trump Jr., because they have the same name.
How many Trump folks in his extended family — cousins, etc. ???
How many Donkey Trump folks who might be encouraged by the Donkeys to run for Prez in some States ??? — more Divide and Conquer stuff.