Six Petitioning Presidential Candidates Submit Ohio Petitions

Posted on by August 12, 2024

The Ohio deadline for independent presidential candidates, and the nominees of unqualified parties, passed on August 7.  Six presidential petitions were submitted:  for the nominees of the Green, Socialism & Liberation, American Solidarity, and Dr. Shiva Parties; and for independent presidential candidates Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Richard Duncan.

The three qualified parties are Republican, Democratic, and Libertarian.

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Six Petitioning Presidential Candidates Submit Ohio Petitions — 20 Comments

  11. Wow, a lot of petitions considering that only 4 candidates were on the ballot in 2020. First time I’ve seen Richard Duncan’s name for this election

  13. So Ohio is not one of the 10-20 states Randall Terry and the Constitution Party were after? I guess that makes sense given its extraordinary signature rejection rate this election.

  15. Richard Duncan isn’t running for president of the United States, he’s running for president of Ohio! And he’s going to WIN!!

  17. I based my “10-20” figure on two interviews with IPR from a month and more ago:

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    IPR: Where are you on the ballot now?

    SLOVENEC: That’s a good question because there are states that just may need just this one little thing, and then it’s done. Maybe just a signature from Randall, or the like. We are solid right now at 14 or 15 states and that’s growing. We’ll finalize Michigan on the 27th of this month. So it’s one state at a time. Finalizing things in Colorado. I have a whole list where there’s just a very little bit of paperwork that is required.

    IPR: What’s your aspirational goal for ballot access by November?

    SLOVENEC: Originally all we really wanted was 10 states. That’s all we really need for our media campaign. Originally we were doing this as independents, but I was the executive director of the U.S. Taxpayers Party in the late 90s. So I contacted the chairman of the Constitution Party (which was originally the US Taxpayer’s Party) Jim Clymer. So we went through their process and presented our case to a number of the state executive committees prior to their national convention. Then at the national convention we won hands-down as their nominee. So that helped us with the ballot access.

    So our original goal of 10, if we were doing it by ourselves, all of a sudden we knew we would have that. We have no realistic aspiration of ever being in the White House. That’s not going to happen to a minor party at this time. But our goal is to get 10 states, because if you are on the ballot in 10 states, you can place national ads in all 50 states, and the FCC cannot censor your ad 60 days prior to the election. The key states we wanted were Virginia because of its proximity to DC. We wanted New Jersey so we could advertise in New York, etc.

    Our whole goal is putting our commercials on television, our radio spots on the radio. You can see those at our website, http://www.Terry2024.com and while you’re there, hey, feel free to make a donation! You want to see any of these ads on television? Make a huge donation and we’ll make sure we get them on.

    IPR: That’s useful background, but what’s your aspirational goal for November? How many states do you hope to have?

    SLOVENEC: 20 would be solid; the Party thinks that we could do a little better, but 20 would be great.

    https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2024/07/ipr-interview-cp-campaign-director-joe-slovenec-re-ballot-access-ice-t-endorsement-of-randall-terry/

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    IPR: How many states will you have ballot access in?

    TERRY: We’re looking at between 18 and 22. There are some states where the Constitution Party has permanent access. There are other states where we have to get access every four years. So we just finished New Jersey. Same with Tennessee. It’s only 275 signatures. It all boils down to local people gathering signatures right now.

    (NOTE: An email received by IPR from the national Constitution Party states, in part, “The Campaign’s goal is to be on the ballot in at least 20 states.”)

    https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2024/07/ipr-interview-randall-terry-constitution-party-potus-nominee-right-to-life-at-conception-activist/

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    Wikipedia’s maps do not seem to include states where Terry qualified as an independent (e.g. Idaho), only those where he qualified via that state’s Constitution Party, regardless of whether it’s affiliated to the national party (e.g. Oregon).

  18. Yes, I read the interview. But I don’t see it borne out by the actual progress since then.

    Good point about Idaho. What other states, if any?

  19. I’m actually not sure. I suspect Terry is qualified as an independent in Idaho, Nevada and Utah (all three states that nominated Skousen instead), as well as in West Virginia. But don’t quote me on that, because I’m basing my suspicion on comments and on the ballot access map on the Constitution Party’s website, which doesn’t distinguish clearly between Terry’s ballot access and the party’s ballot access.

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