The Rhode Island Secretary of State’s office says Rocky De La Fuente now has enough valid signatures to be on the ballot as the presidential nominee of the Alliance Party.
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On September 7, the New York Times ran an obituary for Charlotta Bass, who was the Progressive Party’s vice-presidential nominee in 1952, and the first African-American woman to be on the ballot anywhere for vice-president. The New York Times has recently been running belated obituaries for people who did not get a Times obituary when they died, but the newspaper now believes that they should have had such obituaries.
Bass died April 12, 1969. Thanks to Irv Sutley for the link.
An earlier version of this post erroneously stated that the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court had removed Howie Hawkins from the Pennsylvania ballot. Actually there is no court opinion yet. It will be released on September 9, Wednesday. I mistakenly confused the brief of the objectors with the opinion. Thanks to the commenters who figured this out. I really get help from commenters!
On September 8, the Arizona Supreme Court issued a two-page order in West v Clayton. It says Kanye West can’t be on the ballot as an independent presidential candidate because his elector candidates didn’t file a statement of economic interest, per ARS 16-341(I). It says it will explain further later.
It is somewhat a relief that the court did not say West should be barred from the ballot because he is a registered Republican in his home state. No presidential candidate in history has ever been kept off any ballot on the basis of how he or she is registered, and if the Court had cited that as a reason for keeping him off, it would have violated precedent in Arizona and all other states. Thanks to Rick Hasen for this news.
The Arizona Secretary of State’s website, which has instructions for presidential candidates, had never said that presidential elector candidates must file a statement of economic interest, and chances are no candidate for presidential elector in Arizona has ever before filed such a statement.
The Hawaii Elections Department website now lists Don Blankenship as the Constitution Party nominee for president. See the link here. He was not listed as of last week.