August 1 is the deadline for independent candidate petitions in Maine (for president) and Maryland (for all office). No presidential petitions were filed in either state.
The qualified parties in Maine and Maryland are Democratic, Green, Libertarian, and Republican.
August 1 is the Vermont deadline for petitions for independent presidential candidates, and the nominees of unqualified parties. Two petitions have enough valid signatures: Jill Stein, and Rocky De La Fuente. The Socialist Workers Party also submitted a presidential petition, but it did not have enough valid signatures.
Qualified parties with presidential nominees already on in Vermont are: Democratic, Libertarian, Liberty Union, and Republican.
August 1 is the West Virginia deadline for petitions for independent candidates and the nominees of unqualified parties. The only statewide petition filed this year in West Virginia is the Constitution Party petition.
The qualified parties in West Virginia are Democratic, Green, Libertarian, and Republican. The name of the West Virginia Green Party is the Mountain Party.
August 1 is the Kansas deadline for independent candidate petition deadlines. Two presidential independent petitions were filed: Jill Stein, and Ajay Sood. Here is a link to information about Sood, who lives in Shawnee, Kansas. There is a suggestion in on-line material about him that he was born in India.
The only qualified parties in Kansas are Democratic, Republican, and Libertarian. No group has done a party petition in Kansas since Americans Elect in 2011, and Americans Elect went off the ballot in 2012.
On August 2, Donald Trump sat for an interview with a Washington Post reporter. Rick Hasen has abstracted out the part of the conversation in which Trump is asked if he wants either or both Gary Johnson and Jill Stein in the debates. Trump said, “No”. See Hasen’s post here.
It is surprising that Trump says that Stein polls better than Johnson. All of the 4-way polls listed for the last few weeks at Real Clear Politics show that Johnson polls ahead of Stein.
