On August 24, the Ohio Secretary of State’s office said that the independent presidential petitions of Gary Johnson and Richard Duncan both have enouvh valid signatures. Both of them had approximately 12,000 signatures. The requirement is 5,000.
The Secretary of State’s office said that the petitions for Darrell Castle and Michael Steinberg do not have enough valid signatures. The Steinberg petition consisted of Steinberg for president and Rocky De La Fuente for vice-president. In other states these two are also running mates, but De La Fuente is the presidential candidate and Steinberg is the vice-presidential candidate. The De La Fuente campaign reversed the names on the Ohio petition to avoid having a fight with the Secretary of State over the sore loser law.
The three qualified parties in Ohio are Democratic, Green, and Republican.
I thought Castle had already made it onto the Ohio ballot. Their map has Ohio in green indicating such: http://www.constitutionparty.com/get-involved/election-central/ballot-access/
Thanks for this post. This is great news for the LP. I also saw that this was reported earlier in a Cinncinati newspaper (I don’t remember which one).
The National LP ballot access page has turned Ohio Green, but no mention on the front page of their website:
https://www.lp.org/2016-presidential-ballot-access-map
The article also mentioned that over 7000 of Johnson’s signatures were valid. I’m curious how far short Castle was.
The CP probably assumed that they would make it because I read that they submitted over 8000 signatures.I don’t know what to do this November then.Write in,vote Trump!!!?
News release from OH SoS:
http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/mediaCenter/2016/2016-08-24.aspx
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http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/08/24/gary-johnson-qualifies-ohio-ballot-libertarian-presidential-candidate/89251006/
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/08/24/Johnson_makes_presidential_ballot.html
Wait, the Constitution Party submitted over (8,000) signatures, and only (~38%) of those signatures were valid? Isn’t that abnormally low as far as validation goes?
That map is highly inaccurate, Jeff.
Cody, Yes, the CP national map certainly is inaccurate because now they have West Va. listed as pending, but Castle is already recognized by the WVSOS as being on – and has been on for the past week and a half: http://apps.sos.wv.gov/elections/candidate-search/
More politics..the Castle campaign turned in 8000 and the state only validated a little over 3000…come on people, you all know this is corruption..All these state ballot laws need a level playing field or should be ruled unconstitutional immediately.
Don’t forget the Oregon matter, Jeff.
CP should demand to see the validity reports in Ohio and be prepared to challenge in court those signatures that were discarded. Will have to act fast.