On September 8, the Wyoming Secretary of State’s office determined that Evan McMullin’s independent presidential petition does not have enough valid signatures. He needed 3,302, and he submitted 5,500, but that was not enough. The Secretary of State’s office declined to say how many were valid.
Wyoming’s ballot will have six presidential candidates: Darrell Castle, Hillary Clinton, Rocky De La Fuente, Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, and Donald Trump.
No surprise. The first time I was involved with petitioning, we didn’t fully understand the Wyoming rules for validation. Result – less an 60% validity. The second time we paid for *valid* signatures, not just the gross number. Over 70% validity!!
Real test here to see if McMullin’s campaign is actually going to litigate anything, because if they don’t litigate this, they ain’t litigating anything.
Agree
I didn’t get enough valid signatures in Wyoming either.
I wonder if they invalidated all the ones that didn’t fill out the “date” field. That field already was numbered 1-10 on each page, so signers and petition gatherers often missed it. They were all dated on the bottom by the petitioner in any case, but if the officials are super picky, that might be the rub. Would the law require that field? Don’t know.