On September 2, the New Hampshire Secretary of State determined that the Green Party presidential petition is valid. Thanks to Thomas MacMillan for this news. This is the first time the Green Party presidential nominee has been on in New Hampshire since 2000. In 2012, Jill Stein was credited with 324 write-ins in New Hampshire.
On November 8, Colorado voters will vote on Initiative 140, which would create presidential primaries for parties that polled at least 10% of the vote in the last election. Here is the text. Independent voters could vote in either major party’s primary. However, members of other parties would not be permitted to change their party registration on presidential primary date for the purpose of receiving a particular party’s primary ballot. The presidential primary would be in March. The two major parties would set the date within March, assuming they agree.
The North Dakota petition deadline for independent candidates is Tuesday, September 6. So far, two independent presidential petitions have been submitted: for Jill Stein and Rocky De La Fuente. North Dakota permits presidential candidates who use the independent procedure to choose a party label, so Stein will have “Green” next to her name.
The qualified parties in North Dakota are Democratic, Libertarian, and Republican.
On August 30, the District of Columbia Board of Elections determined that all three Libertarian petitions for district-wide office are valid. They are for President, Delegate to the U.S. House, and City Council-at-large.
There is no Republican nominee for Delegate to the U.S. House, so it is very likely that the Libertarian nominee will get at least 7,500 votes, restoring the party’s qualified party status. In 2012, when the Republican Party also didn’t run for Delegate, Bruce Majors, the Libertarian nominee, received 16,524 votes.
The three qualified parties in D.C. are Democratic, Green, and Republican. The Libertarian Party was qualified from November 2012 to November 2014. Here is a link to the list of candidates.
Tallahassee, Florida government offices are closed September 1-2, due to a hurricane. The deadline for parties to qualify and also to certify their presidential elector candidates had been September 1. The Governor has proclaimed that deadlines of various sorts will be tolled, so this year it appears the true deadline is Tuesday, September 6, because Monday, September 5, is Labor Day.
Thus it probably won’t be possible to know which presidential candidates will be on the Florida ballot until next week. The Evan McMullin candidacy in Florida is dependent on whether he qualified a new party in Florida, or possibly whether the Independent Party or the Independence Party (which are already on the ballot) might possible have nominated him.
