Shortly before the deadline for Pennsylvania petition challenges, some Pennsylvania Democratic leaders filed a challenge to the statewide Green Party petition.
No one challenged the statewide Libertarian petition, but a challenge was filed to the party’s candidate for U.S. House, 12th district.
Petitioning groups in Pennsylvania no longer need to fear that if the challenges to their petitions are successful, that the petitioning groups will need to pay court costs.
The Maine Secretary of State has determined that Rocky De La Fuente’s presidential petition is valid. His ballot label is “Alliance.”
The Alaska Division of Elections has determined that the Green Party presidential petition is valid.
Politifact, a fact-checking website that uses neutral experts, here finds the statement that minor party and independent candidates generally hurt Democrats is false. The analysis has some data that minor parties hurt Donald Trump in 2016, and that Kanye West hurts Trump this year. Of course, West’s attemps to get on ballots have been so badly handled so far, he won’t be on many ballots in any event.
The Maine petition to get Jo Jorgensen on the ballot as the Libertarian nominee for president has enough signatures, according to the Secretary of State. This makes it moderately likely that she will be on the ballot in all 51 jurisdictions that have electoral votes. Thanks to Bill Redpath for this news.
