On August 23, the Kansas Secretary of State said the Jill Stein independent petition has enough valid signatures. Her petition was the only independent petition filed.

The qualified parties are Democratic, Libertarian, and Republican. The Reform Party was previously ballot-qualified, but Secretary of State Kris Kobach removed it from the ballot in December 2012, even though by precedent and the previous interpretation of the law by earlier Secretaries of State, the party should have remained on the ballot. But the Reform Party of Kansas didn’t fight back.

On August 24, the Ohio Secretary of State’s office said that the independent presidential petitions of Gary Johnson and Richard Duncan both have enouvh valid signatures. Both of them had approximately 12,000 signatures. The requirement is 5,000.

The Secretary of State’s office said that the petitions for Darrell Castle and Michael Steinberg do not have enough valid signatures. The Steinberg petition consisted of Steinberg for president and Rocky De La Fuente for vice-president. In other states these two are also running mates, but De La Fuente is the presidential candidate and Steinberg is the vice-presidential candidate. The De La Fuente campaign reversed the names on the Ohio petition to avoid having a fight with the Secretary of State over the sore loser law.

The three qualified parties in Ohio are Democratic, Green, and Republican.

Daily Kos has this article about the August 2, 2016 Washington state primary, and the Treasurer’s race. Three Democrats and two Republicans filed. Even though 52% of the electorate voted for one of the three Democrats, only two Republicans will be on the November ballot, because they came in first and second.

The Daily Kos story properly blames the top-two system for the result, which is that voters who want a Democrat to be Treasurer are disenfranchised in November. Washington state permits write-ins in the general election, and conceivably a Democrat could launch a write-in campaign. But the state won’t let any of the three Democrats who filed in the primary be write-in candidates. Thanks to Jan Tucker for the link.