In the November 2020 election, Virginia will have only one independent candidate for Congress on the ballot, and no minor party candidates on the ballot. This is the smallest number of minor party and independent candidates on the ballot for Congress in Virginia since 1938, when there was also only one.
The lone congressional independent this year is David Bruce Foster, in the 2nd U.S. House district. The reason for the much reduced number of candidates is the health crisis.
The Tennessee Secretary of State’s website has this list of presidential candidates who filed petitions. The only qualified parties in Tennessee are the Republican and Democratic Parties, so all others must use the independent presidential procedure, which requires 275 signatures.
Three independent petitions have already been approved: those for the Libertarian, Alliance, and Socialist Workers Party presidential nominees.
Still under review are petitions for the nominees of the Constitution, Green, Prohibition, Socialism & Liberation, and Unity Parties. Also under review are the petitions for three independent candidates: Brock Pierce, Horace Taylor, and Kanye West.
Former Congressman Tom Campbell, a founder of the Common Sense Party of California, here explains why his party would improve California government if only it could get on the ballot. His op-ed is carried in the pages of the Orange County Register, one of the state’s leading newspapers.
As Campbell says, his party’s federal ballot access lawsuit lost in U.S. District Court, and is pending in the Ninth Circuit. The Common Sense Party v Padilla, 20-16335. Here is the party’s opening brief.
Only five presidential candidates will be on the November ballot in Maine: the nominees of the Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, Green, and Alliance Parties.
On August 18, the virtual Democratic national convention chose Joe Biden for president. The roll-call vote was: Biden 3,558; Bernie Sanders 1,151; absentions 5. There were also 35 delegates who did not cast a vote.
The Green Papers, a valuable reference for U.S. election data, has the roll-call vote for president by state. See here. Scroll down to get the state-by-state listing.
The same page has the nationwide presidential primary totals for each candidate.
