The Indiana Secretary of State’s web page has this list of candidates for the May 2020 primary. Nine Democrats and two Republicans qualified for the presidential primary ballots. The Republicans are Donald Trump and William Weld. The Democrats are Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, Pete Buttigieg, Tulsi Gabbard, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Tom Steyer, Elizabeth Warren, and Andrew Yang. See the list here. The list presents Democrats first, for all federal and state office. To see the Republican list, first scroll through the Democratic list.
Candidates needed 4,500 signatures, with 500 from each U.S. House district. Indiana probably has the most difficult mandatory petition requirement in the nation for presidential primaries.
RE — 500 from each U.S. House district —
NEVER an EQUAL number of voters in each USA Rep gerrymander district.
more LAWLESS UNCON stuff.
Moore v Ogilvie 1969 — mere 51 years ago.
In 1972 Congressman John Ashbrook was removed from the Republican presidential primary ballot because he was 185 signatures short in 2 districts.
Article 2, Section 1 of the Indiana Constitution: “All elections shall be free and equal.” Perhaps in a few years Hoosiers can amend Article 1, Section 2 so that it states: “Some elections shall be free and equal” or “All elections shall not necessarily be free and equal.”
That’s still a lot less signatures than it takes for a third party or independent
In Indiana.
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derived from part of the 1689 English Bill of Rights Act.
USA going in reverse — to STONE AGE killer monarch/oligarch regimes —
due in part to New Age useless MORON legal history brain dead lawyers and judges.
How many days so far in the King Donald regime ???
1,115
Pennsylvania is actually more difficult for D’s and R’s even though the presidential petition is only 2,000 valid sigs vs 4,500 for Indianawhen you factor in that in PA only registered Democrats can sign, vs in IN, any registered voter can sign (IN has non-partisan voter registration), and in PA they only give candidates 3 weeks to gather signatures, vs in IN they have over 4 months to gather signatures. Also, IN does not require petitions for delegates, but in PA, every delegate and alternate delegate has to petition their way on the ballot, and they are all on seperate petition which require 250 signatures each, and they are apportioned via congressional district. So if a presidential candidate has a full slate of delegates and alternate delegates, they need way more than 2,000 signatures.
Pennsylvania used to be very hard for third parties too, but recently got easier.
The signature requirement in PA for statewide minor party and independent candidates got capped at 5,000 valid petition signatures as per a judge’s ruling, which was based in part on their being about 5 weeks left until the deadline when the ruling came down. That ruling is not actually a law passed by the legislature, so it is possible that the legislature could pass a new ballot access law which increases this requirement, but my guess is that if they do, the new law may still call for less signatures than the old law.
It should be pointed out that the signature requirement for minor parties and independent candidate was only reduced for STATEWIDE candidates, and NOT for these type of candidates for offices that are not statewide, which means that a minor party or independent candidate in PA who runs for say US House or State Senate or State House is still under the old signature requirements.
All ballot access quotas and deadlines are voter censorship. Voters control their ballots until the 1880s-90s. There is no constitutional authority for states (aka the duopoly parties) to monopolize the ballot and ration ballot access for some to favor access for the Democrats and Republicans. It is election tampering and voter suppression.