The Average State in 2020 had Six Presidential Candidates on the Ballot

In the 2020 presidential election, the average state had six presidential candidates on the ballot. The median state had five candidates. The average is somewhat distorted because Colorado and Vermont each had 21 candidates, so the median is probably a more meaningful figure.

Twelve states only had three candidates on the ballot: Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Virginia.

If you intend to ask any state legislator to introduce a bill to ease ballot access, and you are in one of the twelve states that only had three, that is ammunition for the idea that your state is too difficult.

In the early Democratic presidential primaries, every state had at least 12 Democrats on the presidential primary ballot, and that didn’t cause any “voter confusion” problems. The same is true of early Republican presidential primaries in 2016.

Ballot access laws that keep worthy candidates off the ballot don’t only injure those candidates. They injure the voters who would like to vote for such candidates. Democratic Party legislators like to think that the Democratic Party is a champion of voting rights, so if you are communicating with a Democratic state legislator, make this point.


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The Average State in 2020 had Six Presidential Candidates on the Ballot — 28 Comments

  1. How many R purges of LP ???

    How many D purges of Greens ???

    EQUAL individual nom pets ???

    asking incumbents for ANY election reform is a TOTAL waste of time —

    they each LOVE the UNEQUAL stuff that put them into POWER.

    some hope in the 18 States with voter pets for State Const Amdts

  2. Voter pets are FRAUD. Pets are not allowed to vote. It’s all part of the DEMON craps trying to steal the election from TRUMP.

  3. You eat and molest pets and children and cast fake votes for them demon crap .

  4. When will the BAN resident retard Trump hack moron troll give it up —

    at noon 20 Jan 2021 when Biden becomes USA Prez ???

  5. How many fake names by the BAN resident Trump MORON HACK TROLL since it first found BAN ???

    up to 100 fake names ???

    — akin to fake Russia sites on Facebook / Twitter.

  6. You keep going back and forth about whether you use one name or many, as if anyone cares either way.

  7. The REAL Demo Rep uses ONE name only — Demo Rep.

    The BAN resident troll moron has somehow subverted the BAN security system in several posts impersonating even my name.

  8. I don’t know what ban you’re babbling about, but Google can’t ban me no matter how much they try. They won’t be able to stop me when I show up physically st their headquarters and wreak carnage either. They will fail at stopping me then just like they are failing here on these obscure Google search terms.

  9. Demi rep is an imposter. The real Thomas Jones never uses FAKE names and is not a total MORON.

  10. How many arrest warrants outstanding for the BAN resident trump troll moron [of many fake names] with its many CRIMINAL threats ???

  11. Food for the BAN resident troll —

    https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/06/antrim-county-results-election-2020/6185031002/

    Antrim County still red after vote tally snafu showed Joe Biden winning it

    Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press Published 6:34 a.m. ET Nov. 6, 2020 | Updated 7:49 p.m. ET Nov. 6, 2020

    LANSING — Antrim County has posted updated and revised numbers for the presidential and U.S. Senate races after discovering major errors in the numbers the county initially sent to the Secretary of State’s Office.
    The revised numbers — arrived at after manually entering the results from printed tabulated tapes for all 16 precincts — show the northern Michigan county is still red, just not as dark a shade as it was in 2016.
    —-
    Even more ASSumptions / investigations / excuses / conspiracy stories / etc. ??? Duh.

    ANY test ballot runs with M. Mouse, D. Duck, etc on ALL hardware and software BEFORE and AFTER election Days ???

    See 1986 Chernobyl in olde USSR.

  12. MORE food for the troll –

    https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2020/11/06/oakland-county-election-2020-race-results/6184186002/

    Fixed computer glitch turns losing Republican into a winner in Oakland County
    Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press Published 6:27 a.m. ET Nov. 6, 2020 | Updated 7:04 p.m. ET Nov. 6, 2020

    A computer error led election officials in Oakland County to hand an upset victory Wednesday to a Democrat, only to switch the win back to an incumbent Republican a day later.

  13. Let’s look at Demo Rep-

    His real name is Thomas Jones and lives in Detroit, MI
    He posts mindless gibberish
    He’s a spammer
    He’s made threats of violence and death threats
    He hates Puerto Ricans and who knows what other races
    He’s been banned from other websites
    According to him, he is perfect and we are MORONS

    Why Richard Winger allows him to continue this shows his character flaws

  14. BIDEN declared Prez-elect 2021 by AP / CNN / etc.

    what sayeth the BAN resident Trump MORON TROLL of MANY fake names ???

  15. Fake news makes fake call for fake president, meanwhile in the real world TRUMP will stay. Hide and watch.

  16. Imagine believing fake news like CNN and ap. Or thinking Joe Biden Stalin will ever actually be president.

  17. V.I. MORONO and fellow Trump gangsters planning any attack on the Dec 14 meetings of EC folks in WI, MI, PA< NV, AZ, etc ???–

    IE RED Donkey hack commies meeting to elect Biden ???

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