According to this story, if John F. Wood decides to run for U.S. Senate in Missouri as an independent candidates, his backers have already raised $5,000,000 for the campaign. However, Wood has not yet said if he will run. The petition deadline is August 1 and the requirement is 10,000 signatures, to be collected from anywhere in the state. There is no distribution requirement; it was repealed in 1993 after Libertarian Party lobbying.