Nebraska Secretary of State Rejects Independent Presidential Petition of Shiva Ayyadurai

On September 11, the Nebraska Secretary of State determined that two independent presidential petitions have enough valid signatures: Jill Stein and Shiva Ayyadurai. However, he said that he would not put Ayyadurai on the ballot because he was born in India.

He also said that he is permitting Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to withdraw.

The qualified parties in Nebraska are Republican, Democratic, Libertarian (Chase Oliver), and Legal Marijuana Now (Cornel West).


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Nebraska Secretary of State Rejects Independent Presidential Petition of Shiva Ayyadurai — 6 Comments

  1. This my relate to the write-ins in New Jersey Counties elections or maybe not.

    JFK Jr. was one of the Kennedy write-in names on several NJ Counties ballots.

    Why is he permitting a Deadman to withdraw and how does that effect RFK Jr. request to withdraw?

  2. @Stop trolling

    This is a convolution of two misunderstandings.

    Originally this article had a typo that said John F. Kennedy, Jr. (who has been dead for a quarter century) instead of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. That typo was caught by some dude and fixed by Richard Winger, but Mark Seidenberg was responding to it before it got fixed.

    That’s the first misunderstanding; the second is about “names on several NJ Countries ballots” referring to being printed on ballots by the county boards of elections versus being written-in on ballots by voters.

    During the NJ primaries, I don’t think RFK jr had his name printed on the ballot in any county (and JFK jr certainly didn’t). But primary voters did write-in RFK jr on their ballots (and perhaps some of them even mistakenly wrote-in JFK jr, though I suspect it is more likely that Mark Seidenberg erroneously inferred this from taking the Richard Winger’s typo at face value).

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