The North Dakota deadline for a declared write-in presidential candidate to file was October 18. Six individuals filed: Robert Buchanan, Cherunda Fox, Laurence Kotlikoff, Mike Maturen, Evan McMullin, and Marshall Schoenke.
Six presidential candidates are on the ballot in North Dakota: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, Darrell Castle, and Rocky De La Fuente.
Because Washington state uses a top-two system, this year’s Treasurer race happens to have only two Republicans on the November ballot, Duane Davidson and Michael Waite. In the August primary, the three Democrats split up the Democratic vote, so that the two Republicans placed first and second.
Now, a Democrat has entered the race as a declared write-in. He is Eric Miller, and he is actively campaigning. Washington state (unlike California) permits write-in votes in November for top-two offices. However, so far, the media in Washington state has given him little publicity. Washington state doesn’t release write-in results unless the write-in candidate gets at least 1% of the total vote cast in that office.
New York is among the majority of states that counts presidential write-ins for candidates who filed a declaration of candidacy. The deadline for that was Tuesday, October 18. The State Board of Elections will post the list early next week. It still isn’t final, because declarations only had to be postmarked by October 18 and it is possible some more will arrive in the postal mail this week. Among the 30 who have already filed are Evan McMullin and Rocky De La Fuente.
New York has never before had nearly so many declared write-in presidential candidates. New York only requires a single candidate for presidential elector; the state does not require a full slate. That means it is easier to file in New York than in many other states.
Those who watched the October 19 presidential debate saw that Donald Trump said about Hillary Clinton, “She should not be allowed to run.” Here is one of the many news sources that show him saying that.
Under the United States Constitution, as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court in U.S. Term Limits v Thornton, anyone who is age 35, a natural born citizen, and a resident of the U.S. for at least 14 years, is permitted to run for President. Eugene Debs ran for president in 1920 while he was in a federal penitentiary for “espionage” (actually for opposing U.S. involvement in World War I). Vincent Hallinan, 1952 Progressive Party nominee, also ran for President while he was in prison.
Connecticut lets parties that polled at least 15,000 votes in the previous election engage in fusion (the ability for two parties to jointly nominate the same candidate). But Connecticut law won’t permit parties that polled less than 15,000 votes in the last election do the same thing. This analysis in the Yankee Institute for Public Policy suggests that Connecticut law violates the U.S. Constitution.
