This year, independent presidential candidates in Hawaii need 4,347 signatures. The petition was due August 5. No one submitted such a petition.
The qualified parties in Hawaii are Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, Green, Constitution, Aloha Aina, and American Shopping. Parties have until September 4 to certify a presidential nominee.
Various news stories say Kanye West is spending up to $500,000 of his own money to complete the Arizona independent presidential petition. It requires 37,769 signatures by September 4. He reportedly has 100 paid circulators and they are each receiving $8 per signature.
No Arizona independent presidential petition has succeeded since 2008, when Ralph Nader did it. Assuming West submits a very large number of signatures, Arizona election officials will be hard-pressed to check the petition in time for ballot-printing deadlines.
The only ballot-qualified parties in Arizona are Democratic, Republican, and Libertarian.
On August 26, Kanye West filed a lawsuit in Ohio state court to force the Secretary of State to validate his petition. He had submitted 15,000 signatures, and the requirement is only 5,000. The Secretary of State had rejected the petition because the Secretary said the copy of the candidacy declaration on each petition is not identical to the original declaration of candidacy. See this story. Thanks to Mark Seidenberg for the link.
Massachusetts requires 10,000 signatures for independent candidates, and the nominees of unqualified parties, for president and U.S. Senate. This year no one even tried any statewide petition, neither for president nor U.S. Senate.
The qualified parties are Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, and Green.
Nebraska requires 2,500 signatures for independent presidential candidates, due August 3. No one submitted such a petition this year.
Nebraska has three ballot-qualified parties: Republican, Democratic, and Libertarian.
