Two independent candidates qualified for the November 2010 ballot in South Carolina this year, for the state legislature. One is Eugene Platt in the 115th House district, and the other is Jimmy McMillan in the 36th House district.
Platt is also the Green Party nominee for the same office, so he will be listed on the ballot twice. Voters will be able to choose whether to vote for him as a Green or as an independent candidate.
They can be on the ballot as an independent and as a Party candidate? Is that unique among other fusion states?
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Other fusion states that permit a candidate of a party to be listed on the ballot both as the nominee of that party, and as an independent, are Connecticut, Idaho, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont. It isn’t permitted in Delaware, Massachusetts, Oregon, or Pennsylvania, because in those 4 states, independent candidates (except presidential candidates) can’t be registered members of qualified parties.
There doesn’t seem to be a downside to doing it. Wish we had fusion in Ohio.