1. Kanye West started a petition drive in North Dakota, but it got canceled after two days. The reason given for the cancelation was that he VP running mate, Michelle Tidball, had allegedly refused to sign some documents. Who knows if this is true or not, but this is what the crew of petition circulators were told.

2. North Dakota is the only state that doesn’t print the names of vice-presidential candidates on November ballots. Kanye should have just picked someone else for vice-president in North Dakota. He could have told the person, “Don’t worry, no one will even know you are my v-p for North Dakota because your name won’t be on a ballot. It would just be a note in the Secretary of State’s archives.”

   That is one more instance of how new he is at this game.

3. If I am not mistaken this means Jo Jorgensen is now the only alternative candidate to Trump and Biden in the great plains states (North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas). Historically the Libertarian presidential candidate has done best on average in the mountain west but in 2016 these four states gave Johnson some of his best results(outside of his home state of New Mexico) especially if you look at the results at the county level. It will be interesting to see how well the LP does there for president compared to the rest of the country and compared to four years ago.

4. Ron Paul came in 2nd place in the 2012 North Dakota Republican presidential caucus. He was supposed to get some delegates out of it for the Republican National Convention, but the Republican leadership in ND played some games at the ND Republican State Convention, and gave all their delegate seats to Mitt Romney, even though Romney came in 3rd place in the caucus, so they also shafted caucus winner, Rick Santorum. Newt Gingrich came in 4th place in the caucus.

   So given that North Dakota was one of Ron Paul’s best states, maybe Jo Jorgensen can do pretty good there, especially being that she will be the only choice on the ballot besides Biden and Trump.

5. Lund makes a valid observation. Jorgensen is the “only alternative candidate” in a host of other states that have also seen their ballot lines reduced to only 3 presidential candidates, near historic lows.

   Earlier comments here from Libertarians may be low balling Jorgensen’s November return. Several have said she may break one million ballots cast. Personally, I suspect she will do much, much better. And particularly so in states where the up ballot line has been seriously truncated in 2020.

   Fortunately, Idaho is not one of those “truncated ballot” states this year. But for what it’s worth, given irreconcilably defective candidate options this election, my vote is for Jorgensen. Her message on limiting government while recently campaigning up in Alaska was spot on.

6. Can somebody provide a list of states where Jo Jorgensen is going to be the only minor party or independent candidate on the ballot?

   I think the list will be:

   Georgia

   Indiana

   North Dakota

   South Dakota

   Nebraska

   Kansas

   Montana

   Arizona

   Are these states correct? Did I miss any states?

7. @ Andy–Virginia?

   Since I suggested Libertarians are low balling Jorgensen’s 2020 potential total, I should provide numbers on what my model suggests. The Libertarian vote in 2020 is difficult to forecast given respective exponential increases in 2012 and 2016.

   Some Libertarians suggest a drop back in votes to one million in 2020. I don’t think the party recognition of nearly 4.5 million votes from 2016 will simply dissipate. There’s gravity in that previous ballot count, candidate distinctions notwithstanding.

   A linear regression suggests 2.1 million votes to Jorgensen is the base estimate for 2020. The curvilinear (projected one period forward) ranges the estimate band upward…3.1 million votes. My range estimate’s point value is ~2.6 million ballots. And this does not consider other factors like voter disgust with the duopoly, revolt against the media prostitute hacks, or the beggars, liars, f’rs and thieves…to paraphrase The Standells.

8. I think she’s the only 3rd party candidate in Alabama, Virginia and New Hampshire as well

9. Subscribe to BAN —-

   Sep 1, 2020 BAN (green paper) has a Prez list, p.6 — LP plus 6 other larger groups.

   FEC will likely have a full list – party / non-party persons — shortly after ballot access deadlines, ballot printing deadlines, court action — perhaps by Mid OCT 2020 [???]

10. Did the Green Party make it in New Hampshire?

    I know the Greens did not even try in Virginia and Alabama.

    Kanye West started, or came close to starting, a petition drive in Alabama at the last minute, but even they realized it was a suicide mission, so the plug got pulled on it pretty quickly.

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