This ABC story says that an internal Evan McMullin campaign memo lists seven states that have a ballot-qualified party that might nominate McMullin, putting him on the ballot in those states with no need for a petition. According to the story, those states are Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, and South Carolina.
Minnesota has no ballot-qualified parties. Apparently the author of the memo believed that the Independence Party is on the ballot, but it went off the ballot in 2014.
The only Delaware ballot-qualified party that hasn’t already nominated someone for Presdent is the Independent Party, but the Independent Party already endorsed Donald Trump, although conceivably it could change its mind.
Florida has several ballot-qualified parties that conceivably could nominate McMullin, including the Independent Party and the Independence Party. Neither has ever before nominated anyone for President.
Hawaii has two ballot-qualified parties that could possibly nominate McMullin: the Independent Party and the American Shopping Party.
New York has two ballot-qualified parties that might possibly nominate McMullin, the Reform Party and the Independence Party. But those are unlikely. The leader of the Independence Party is a friend of Donald Trump. The leader of the Reform Party has promised the Republican Party to always nominate the Republican presidential nominee.
Oregon has one qualified party that might possibly nominate McMullin, the Constitution Party. The Oregon Constitution Party is angry with the national Constitution Party. The Oregon Independent Party has already determined that it will not nominate a presidential candidate this year. It is politically impossible that the Progressive Party would nominate McMullin.
South Carolina has two qualified parties that might nominate McMullin, the American Party and the Independence Party. The American Party already nominated someone else for president, but that party could change its mind.
What about the Alaskan Independence Party? They nominated Baldwin in ’08.
Richard, I heard that the Independence Party of Minnesota was petitioning to place a presidential candidate on the ballot. I do not know if they were using paid signature gatherers or not, and I do not know if is really happening or was just talk.
The Independence Party is doing it with their own volunteers. They will probably succeed. Here is a link to their facebook page. They hope to finish up tonight outside a well-attended sport event.
https://www.facebook.com/MinnesotaIP
Delaware, Hawaii and New York will probably not be very helpful to McMullin…
Looks like Oregon Progressive Party has nominated Jill Stein.
I’m hopeful for Hawai’i for purely selfish reasons. R’s are a tiny minority on a solid blue island chain. I doubt he’d get a ‘W’ but I believe he could pull a lot of the Cruz supporters. I would just like to pull the lever for someone who’s worthy of my vote.