Filing for major party presidential primaries in Texas closed on December 9. This news story mentions the seven candidates who qualified for the Republican ballot: Rocky De La Fuente, Bob Ely, Zoltan Istvan, Matthew Matern, President Donald Trump, Joe Walsh, and Bill Weld. Candidates in this primary needed either a filing fee of $5,000, or 4,500 signatures.
good to see some primary voter choice….
The in lieu of requirement is 300 from at least 15 congressional districts.
You may have misread that as being from all 36 congressional districts.Jim Riley
I’d like to see which methods each of the campaigns used.
Zoltan Istvan is running for President in the Republican primary now. Another party hopper.
What Elephant ranks high if/when Trump is impeached [fat chance in Elephant Senate] ???
IE small odds that RNC HACKS pick a new Prez nominee ???
Time running out for even last second ballot access cases to get to SCOTUS before Nov 2020 election day ???
Likely check.
In Texas, candidates file with the political parties who administer the primaries according to state law. Filing requirements for all offices except president are set in statute. There is a specific exemption for president.
In 1988, there was a scandal where organizers provided pizza and alchohol to teenagers who sat around and forged signatures on petitions. A contracter for Pete du Pont, by the name of Rocky Mountain, was later convicted of forgery, got a probated sentence and was fined $7600.
Mountain claimed that he was peeved at a Du Pont campaign official and only intended to dump them on the official’s desk, and not submit them to the RPT. The RPT put all candidates on the ballot, even though there were alleged forgeries on several.
The RPT switched to a filing fee. There must be an in lieu of option, in case a candidate is indigent.
Filings are public record, so you could find out.
@Andy,
He’s a lifeform hopper, party hopping is nothing.
Jim, can you get us the Democratic presidential primary list? I looked on the Democratic Party of Texas web page but it didn’t seem to have that. Thank you.
From the SOS web site:
Bennet, Biden, Bloomberg, Booker, Buttigieg, Castro, Rocky III, Delaney, Gabbard, Klobuchar, Patrick, Sanders, Steyer, Warren, Robby Wells, Williamson, Yang. (Harris withdrawn).
Before 2013, the state chair would send the certified list of candidates to the county chairs for preparation of ballots. They were also required to make the information available to the press, and the applications are public records.
Since 2013 (2014 election) the party chair has been required to certify candidates to the SOS website. This is not really a filing with the SOS, but a portal to the SOS website. After the filing, the state chair informs the county chairs to get the filings from the SOS website. This has been very much a project of the TDP, and so they no longer maintain their own list. Robby Wells filed on December 9, so I think the Democrat list is complete, though it may be a matter of keying everything in.
The Republicans participate less enthusiastically, and the list on the RPT website has 7 candidates, while only 5 are on the SOS website.
The petition requirement for Republicans is 300 from each of 15 congressional districts, with no statewide requirement.
For the Democrats, the filing fee is $5000, or 5000 signatures, plus the loyalty pledge that eliminated Dennis Kucinich.
Party chairs are not required to verify petitions other than for facial compliance (signature count, notarized, etc.) But they are public record.
In the case of some judicial candidates, a petition is required in addition to the filing fees. No doubt, opponents go check these petitions.
ALL more reasons to abolish the minority rule EC.
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PR and AppV and TOTSOP
2018 TEXAS GERRYMANDER RESULTS
https://elections.sos.state.tx.us/elchist331_state.htm
VERY EASY TO PUT IN SPREADSHEET AND DO THE ANTI-DEMOCRACY MINORITY RULE GERRYMANDER MATH.
1/2 OR LESS VOTES X 1/2 GERRYMANDER AREAS = 1/4 OR LESS CONTROL.
CAN JR DO THE MATH ??? — OR PERHAPS SOME TX POLISCI / MATH PROF ???
SAME ROT IN ALL 50 STATES – BIT WORSE IN TOP 2 PRIMARY STATES
— DUE TO MORE NON-VOTES IN GERRYMANDER DISTRICTS/AREAS N-O-T HAVING 1 D AND 1 R CANDIDATES.