August 17 is the Montana deadline for independent presidential petitions. The only petitions received by the Secretary of State are Jill Stein’s petition and Rocky De La Fuente’s petition. The law requires 5,000, and each submitted over twice the requirement. Montana permits candidates who use the independent petition procedure to have a party label on the ballot, so Jill Stein will have “Green” next to her name. De La Fuente’s label will be “independent.”
The qualified parties in Montana are Democratic, Libertarian, and Republican. Thanks to Mike Fellows for this news.
Does this mean that McMullin missed it? How many ballots has he made?
So far he has missed more deadlines (since he announced) than he has met.
Is New York closed off now?
Today is apparently the deadline for Alabama. Hope some more folks can get on there.
Yes, today is Alabama, and tomorrow is Iowa. Tomorrow is also the deadline for Ohio local elections board to certify signatures received for independent petitions.
I’m trying to follow very closely the progress of the LP to make the ballots. I find it hard to obtain detailed information on the status of their petition drives, but they do seem to make it in the end. I wish they would be more forthcoming with this information.
What happened to the Constitution Party in Montana?
Michael, they haven’t been on the ballot in awhile. Some of them became Tea Party Republicans and others became Libertarians.
I still see their bumper stickers on occasion, but the political party itself is pretty much nonexistent in the state.
What was the purpose of Fuente procuring the Reform Party nomination if he wasn’t going to use the designation “Reform Party” where he is allowed to?
Tom, in some of these placed to petition drives started before he won the Reform Party nomination.
Should read, “places…”
Tom P, regarding progress on the LP ballot access, no, I don’t see any updates from the party but I have a running post on the Gary Johnson Street Team group on Facebook where some others give updates on their states.
BradleyinDC,
Thanks for your message. I found your Facebook Group, and it give a lot of good information. A question:
What do you mean when you say “Iowa is in court?” Is that going to be a problem?
Also, some additional information:
– I decided to call Alabama’s SOS office. I was told by them that Johnson had submitted petitions, and they probably would finish the process of validating his signatures by Monday.
– The National Party hasn’t updated PA to “on ballot” yet. The PA SOS website shows petitions for Carla Howell, and that she has “withdrawn”, but nothing further on Gary. I am guessing that the substitution paperwork isn’t complete yet.
– The Virginia party’s Facebook page showed they had a partial turn in of about 5500 signatures about 1-2 weeks ago. Your information that they are up to about 7300 is new.
Thanks
Even if McMullin got the nomination of as many parties as possible and filed at every deadline, as well as win his New Mexico lawsuit, he would be stuck at 219. And this is a fringe total for McMullin, since this counts if he got the endorsement of every possible party, like the Working Class Party in Michigan, the New York Independence Party, and the Vermont Progressive Party. The only way he could limp across 270 is if he did this AND the American Independent Party flipped its support to McMullin.
On the other hand, the limit for Castle would be 325, hinging on the NYIP, so realistically 296. De La Fuente’s limit is 349, with that hinging on the Working Class Party in Michigan.
If all of the socialist parties rallied around a single candidate like Alyson Kennedy or Gloria La Riva, they would be at 187.
Castle is way more limited then that, Kevin; in fact he won’t even reach 270.