The Indiana petition deadline for independent candidates, and the nominees of unqualified parties, has passed. No such petition for any statewide office, or any U.S. House seat, succeeded. Here is the list of candidates for November.
The Green Party tried to obtain the needed 26,700 valid signatures for its nominee for Secretary of State, George Wolfe, but did not get enough signatures. Wolfe has filed as a declared write-in candidate.
Independent U.S. Senate candidate Nathan Altman also failed to get enough signatures, and has filed as a write-in candidate.
No statewide petition has succeeded in Indiana since 2000, when Pat Buchanan petitioned as the Reform Party presidential nominee. There is no other state in which it has been so many years since either a statewide independent, or a newly-qualifying party, got on the ballot for statewide office. Even Americans Elect did not succeed in Indiana in 2011-2012, partly because Indiana forces petitioning groups to choose their nominees before the petition can begin to circulate.
Lots of gerrymander districts.
Lots of party hack exec/judic offices.
Typical rotted State.
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PR and nonpartisan AppV
What State has EQUAL ballot access tests for partisan offices (not counting top 2 primary States)
— party hacks and independents ???
Pat Buchanan was one of the 125 POTUS candidates nominated in the “First Internet Preference Ballot Election of 1995” who responded with a letter of appreciation to our invitation to speak at our free speech gathering event in 1995, held at Monterey Bay Park, attended by hundreds.
Among other candidates who responded were Willie Brown, Bill Clinton and Ralph Nader.
Fidel Castro did not reply but we still work closely with the USA Communist Party presidential candidate Ernest Wells of Tennessee with who I recently spoke while visiting the MLK historical assassination site in Memphis TN.
Our team is already focused on the 2020 POTUS/V-POTUS election and the coalition of POTUS campaigns for 2020 is getting ready to announce the collaborative effort within days.
http://usparliament.org/ucc.html
Well, at least I’ll be able to write Wolfe’s name in this November, probably.