Independent Political Report has this interesting message from Jo Jorgensen, who reports she has recently received hateful e-mail from some Trump supporters, and some Biden supporters. Each group assumes the votes she received would have gone to the candidate backed by the message-sender.

Every state has its own law on the order of candidates on general election ballots. In November 2020, Joe Biden was listed first in seventeen states; President Trump was listed first in fifteen states. Howie Hawkins was listed first in two states, New Mexico and South Carolina. Jo Jorgensen was listed first in the District of Columbia. Brock Pierce was listed first in Utah.

Biden benefited in some states because Biden’s surname is near the top of the alphabet.

In another thirteen states, names are rotated (although in Illinois and Iowa, it is only the nominees of the qualified parties that are rotated, and others are placed beneath them). In Arkansas and New Jersey, each county decides ballot order for itself, although in New Jersey the major parties are always listed first.

The December 1, 2020 print edition of Ballot Access News will have a chart showing the order of presidential candidates in each state.