On August 13, the Georgia Secretary of State said three presidential petitions have enough valid signatures: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Cornel West, and Claudia De la Cruz. The requirement is 7,500 signatures. This is the first time the Georgia Secretary of State has found enough valid signatures for a presidential candidate petition since 2000, when Pat Buchanan succeeded.
The requirement has been 7,500 starting with 2016, but no petitioning candidate succeeded in either 2016 nor 2020.
The Green Party did not petition in Georgia this year because the new law says it may be on the ballot for president automatically, assuming it is on in at least twenty other states or territories that have electoral votes.
The Libertarian Party is on the ballot automatically for all statewide offices because it got enough votes in 2022.
Various groups have filed challenges to all three petitions, for various technical issues that the Secretary of State so far seems not to believe have merit. Thanks to David Clemons for this news.
Is it really not guaranteed that Dr. Stein will be on the ballot in Georgia given that she succeeded in qualifying for the ballot in over 20 states? Insanity.
A better rule would be, if a candidate qualifies in enough states to be eligible for at least half of all the electoral votes, then the remaining states should place that candidate on their ballots automatically.
Incidentally, given that there are a total of 538 electoral votes, it is theoretically possible for there to be a tie electoral vote for President. Congress could minimize the risk of a tie vote for President by increasing the number of seats in the House to an even number.
But, of course, if they did that, then there might be a partisan tie within the House of Representatives, itself.
STATE IS DEAD IF DEPENDING ON LAWS OF OTHER STATES
I really hope Georgia goes for Trump. His economic policy kept me employed.
There he goes again.
WHAT STATE HAS HIGHEST/LOWEST SAMPLE PCT RATE ON PETS ???
What kind of samples are you taking from pets, pervert?
AZ should be arrested for animal cruelty.
Eating pets was bad enough.
The story of the day has gotta be Kenendy just keeps on racking on states despite the NY decision l.It seems the rest of the states are starting to see through NY corrupt Fassad
I don’t think the rest of the states have anything to do with what happened in N.Y. one way or the other.