Presidential Ballot Access Is Substantially More Difficult in 2024 Compared to 2020

Posted on by August 1, 2024

The number of signatures needed for someone running for president outside the major parties in 2024 is substantially more difficult than it had been in 2020.  That is partly because legislatures increased the number of signatures, and partly because some states temporarily decreased their requirements in 2020 because of the covid health crisis.

Using the easier method in each state, the number nationwide in 2020 had been 568,689 signatures or registrants, and in 2024 it is 660,897.

The states that increased the presidential petition requirements were New York in 2020, and Arkansas, Colorado, and Iowa in 2021.  Certain other states also increased requirements for office other than president.

Jurisdictions that temporarily eased the presidential petition requirements in 2020 due to covid were the District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, New Hampshire, and Virginia.  Also New York increased the permanent requirement in 2020 to 45,000, but then lowered it only for 2020 to 30,000.

The calculation assumes that the easier method in California is the independent presidential petition, not the registration method that creates a new party.  However, both methods are extremely burdensome, and it is a close call.  In 2024 the independent petition is 219,403 signatures and the party registration method is approximately 75,000 party members.  The exact requirement for the registration method won’t be known for several weeks, when the state issues a new Report of Registration.

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Presidential Ballot Access Is Substantially More Difficult in 2024 Compared to 2020 — 80 Comments

  1. 14-1 AMDT EQUAL NOM PETS / FILING FEES FOR INDIVIDUAL CANDIDATES — NOT PARTY HACKS

    ONE VOTER NOM PET FORMS

  5. Looking forward to voting Kennedy. Gotta feel good about my vote.
    Don’t care what others do.
    Stay in your lane, heal the divide.
    Kennedy 2024

  8. Yahoo news is just an aggregator. They don’t have their own article’s. That one is from the Hill. Despite being a far right site, they do have a point there.

  15. Flip is yet another alias for Robert K Stock. Everyone knows the Democrat Party are the fascists.

  16. For once, Taran is correct. I am a Republican, and we are the fascist party. I am a fascist, white nationalist Trump supporter, and I’m always welcome at Trump and MAGA events. I don’t hide my racial views in real life. I want Trump to be a dictator and every other thing the leftards fear. Make America White Again!

  19. Even AZ knows the Republicans are fascist. That doesn’t make him stock. Your stock obsession is weird. You’re probably stock yourself.

  22. He already mopped the floor with you years ago. That’s why you are obsessed with him. It’s pathetic and sad.

  24. Years ago like in the early Ralph Nader days I used to come to this web site a lot , then with Gary Johnson, but now it’s full of bots and children who have nothing better to do.. I feel bad for you Richard Winger. U r the foremost expert on this subject and you ha e mentally ill people posting. Sad. Back in the glory days , u never saw this remember?

  25. It’s really just one child. It seems based on observation that he was sexually molested by an older man who identified as a communist. When Stock came out as a communist here, it triggered the retarded young trumptard loser troll of many names, who ever since then insists with no evidence that anyone from the left (and many people who are not) who post here is Stock. He also accuses everyone else of doing what he is and does, like being a troll, retard, loser, etc.

  26. We are on many ballots all over the country. To cast your retard party vote, get your ballot from a roll of ballots in any public toilet, fill it out using your butt, and cast it into the toilet bowl. It will count just as much as any other vote you might cast.

  33. Q,

    Sometimes, you have to take matters into your own hands and get your hands dirty. It is what it is.

  35. The retardation of Americans as exhibited above is why this country must do everything possible to bring in as many newcomers as we can, as quickly as possible. No one has a better proven track record of bringing in impossibly huge numbers of newcomers from every part of the world in a short period of time than childless cat lady Selina Harris, the bestest border Tsarina of all time.

  36. Donald Trump is the name of the candidate who is dreaming, of killing nonwhites and listening to them screaming.

  40. Repetition is not proof, and it’s unproven that you’re not Stock. You very well could be.

  41. I’ve been to every Trump rally ever, but even I have never seen so many retards in one place as here. Truly astounding and tremendous.

  42. Richard Winger why do you allow this, it only tarnishes your work. Makes you a joke. You should ban these people

  46. Will Cumala Herass being elevated to the top of the ticket cause the retard to collapse and fold into the dummycrats?

  48. I believe that I truly own the retard vote. Nobody gets the support of more retards than Donald Trump. Nobody.

  50. For what it’s worth, if anything at all, personally I actually respect Richard Winger more for allowing such an enormous degree of free speech. Mentally ill or morally bankrupt people’s comments don’t tarnish or decrease the value of his work, nor of other good quality comments, even if they make it more work to pick through them.

    Yes, there’s a lot of rude and disingenuous spam, baseless insults and trolling, russophobia and antisemitism, etc. And I’m certainly not implying people should feel comfortable engaging in that. But restricting what people can say and which people can speak, is a very slippery slope.

    So thank you, Mr Winger; and with all respect to Mr Zohar, please don’t start banning people – nor even fascists and communists – with gay abandon.

  56. I think nationalist, patriotic and Christian conservative views should have no place here. People who are to the right of Kamala must be deplatformed.

  58. Speaking of public toilets, we must not rest until gender/sex segregation of public toilets and locker rooms is made illegal anywhere and everywhere. This is truly the civil rights struggle of the 21st century.

  60. We have to stop discrimination on the basis of nationality or citizenship. No-one knows this better than childless cat lady Selina Harris.

  63. crackers shut up and tacos go back to ur country and niggers go back to the cotton fields!!!

  68. I am from the America born and raised. George Washington was my the ancestor.

  69. I think getting 219,403 valid signatures on an independent candidate petition is easier than getting 75,000 voter registrations. Geeting people to register to vote under the name of a polutical party they have never heard of is difficult.

  71. Abolish all fascist ballot access censorship laws and replace them with a universal write-in only voter verifiable ballot that puts voters back in control of election outcomes instead of fascist duopoly partisans.

  75. Oh yeah, you dirty slut. I’m gonna cum inside you, bitch! Your pussy is tight as FUCK!

  79. The duopoly conspires to limit your choices. That’s the same reason NY changed its election laws after the 2018 election. (They should go back to the old law.)

    The duopoly does nto in any way serve the public interest.

  80. The duopoly conspires to limit your choices. That’s the same reason NY changed its election laws after the 2018 election. (They should go back to the old law.)

    The duopoly does not in any way serve the public interest.

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