The New Jersey Elections office has received seven petitions for President that appear to be valid. They are for independent presidential candidate Rocky De La Fuente, and the presidential candidates of these unqualified parties: Constitution, Green, Libertarian, Socialist Workers, Socialism & Liberation, and Workers World.
Two petitions were rejected. The Socialist Party petition did not have enough valid signatures. The Prohibition Party petition was never checked, because the state elections office couldn’t find all of the party’s presidential elector candidates in the state database. New Jersey does not require presidential elector candidates to be registered voters. However the state theorized that some of the Prohibition Party presidential elector candidates might theoretically be felons, and asked the party to provide a copy of the drivers license for each candidate for presidential elector. The Prohibition Party did not comply with that request.
Its possible there are one or two more, the state only updated its page some 15 minutes after the deadline. So if there were some last minute submissions, they likely wouldn’t have been listed on the version of the list currently up on the states webpage.
The NJ Board of Elections website doesn’t have the Socialist Party’s petition listed at the moment either (though does have the Constitution Party’s petition incorrectly labelled as “Socialist Party” for some bizarre reason.) Also, no signature total is listed for Rocky de la Fuente’s petition. So either way there’s some adding of information that should be happening over the next couple of days.
The post has been amended to show that the Socialist Party’s petition didn’t have enough valid signatures. It needed 800 and the state says only 589 are valid.
I though the “Party for Socialism and Liberation” was the new name for the “Worker’s World Party”. Can anyone clear this up?
The Party for Socialism and Liberation and the Worker’s World Party are two separate parties
When were the petitions due?
August 1 (Monday).
Thanks Winger!
I am personally outraged that the state of New Jersey election office has unfairly denied the Prohibition Party the ballot access which it rightfully deserves and which it had completed the required petitioning for. I hope that there still a possibility for this to be remedied.
Will, the PSL split from the WWP because they were unhappy with the WWP’s substandard ballot access efforts and inability to take over the Peace and Freedom Party in California. Despite almost no ideological disagreement, they remain two separate parties.
Q. I asked NJ ELEC, and was directed to a ballot access petition, but now its gone. Can a qualified person sign a POTUS petition for the Greens, and the Socialists?