On February 7, the Kansas House Elections Committee passed HB 2516. As amended, it increases the statewide independent petition from exactly 5,000 signtures, to 2% of the last gubernatorial vote. This would give Kansas the nation’s highest percentage requirement for presidential candidates running outside the two major parties. For 2024, the petition would be 20,818 signatures, which is 1.47% of the Kansas November 2020 presidential vote.
When the 2024 presidential percentage procedures of each state are compared with each other, this would give Kansas the most difficult requirement of any state. The fairest way to compare each state is to calculate the number of signatures in 2024, divided by the number of votes cast for president in 2020. Currently the most difficult percentage (using the easiest method to get on the ballot) is Wyoming, which stands at 1.40%. The only other states currently above 1.01% are California at 1.25%, Indiana at 1.22%, and North Dakota at 1.10%. Thanks to Eric Lund for this news.
Most difficult in terms of %. But you’ve said before that the absolute number of signatures may be more limiting than the percent.
What of the petitioning period? When states lose lawsuits about ballot access, they sometimes lengthen the petition period without changing the number of signatures required. New York in particular has a short period.
Jill Stein barely made the ballot in 2016 when the threshold was 5000. This is appalling
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/02/07/congress/budget-gap-update-cbo-federal-estimates-00140156
ONE MORE RESULT OF THE USA MINORITY RULE CONGRESS SINCE 1789.
HOW MANY SECONDS UNTIL THE TOTAL ECON BREAKDOWN OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION ???
ARE A-L-L LEGISLATIVE BODIES IN THE USA MERE PUPPET TOOLS OF TYRANTS BIDEN/TRUMP ???
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As more and people find the two parties of our system unappealing, they both have to work together to stamp out any potential competition outside their cabal.
And yet there is still no comprehensive lawsuit to abolish ballot access voter censorship all these so-called civil rights organizations and they avoid the censorship of the ballot to suppress voter choice. Who will give a judge the opportunity to strike down these laws and start an appeals process that could energize voters to protest? Libertarians still cringe at the suggestion.
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In 2016, Sanders strongly beat Clinton in the Democratic caucus, and Cruz got a plurality and significant lead over Trump in the Republican caucus. Too bad for Kansas! In November, Stein got over 23,000 votes or 2% (Johnson did better).
Now, some legislators in Kansas would wish candidates like Stein to collect signatures equal to their vote count (1.47% + margin of safety = about 2%)! That’s ridiculous!
I say: 5,000 signatures to form a party and run a slate of candidates. Anything higher than that should be suspect.
You’re suspect, and so is your mum.