Someone running for president in 2024 as an independent, or as the nominee of a new party, will need 652,177 valid signatures, if the laws don’t change. That assumes the candidate uses the easier method in each state.
In 2020, the national total was 568,689, which was substantially lower than the 2024 figure. The increase is due partly to the fact that in 2020, because of covid, Illinois, Virginia, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and New York reduced the statutory requirements for 2020 only.
Also, since 2020, Arkansas and Iowa have increased the petition requirement.
For purposes of this compilation, the California easier requirement is deemed to be collecting 219,403 signatures on an independent petition, rather than getting an estimated 75,000 registered party members. Both alternatives are very difficult, and a reasonable person could argue about which is more difficult. It would be very desirable if California would reduce the independent presidential petition. That procedure has not been used since 1992.
This is very interesting. Is there a state-by-state breakdown available?
The data will be in the Dec. 1 2022 print edition of Ballot Access News.
Richard, thanks so much.
Good! Get the streakers off the field and out of the way of Team Red crushing the evil smurf enemy!
Dividing by 365, that works out to 1787 per day. … Which was also a historical year. A good omen.
I agree with Joe.