Rocky De La Fuente’s ballot access lawsuit against the Oklahoma presidential petition was dismissed on July 29 for inactivity, but an experienced ballot access attorney expects to re-file the case on August 8. Jill Stein will also be a plaintiff. Oklahoma requires an independent presidential candidate, or the presidential nominee of an unqualified party, to submit 40,047 valid signatures by July 15. Yet the state requires substantially fewer signatures for new parties. They need 24,745 valid signatures. Another strange characteristic of Oklahoma law is that an independent candidate for an office other than President needs no petition at all, just a filing fee. The U.S. Supreme Court said in Anderson v Celebrezze that states must go easier on independent presidential candidates than independent candidates for other office.

On August 6, the Green Party nominated Jill Stein for President and Ajamu Baraka for Vice-President. Independent Political Report has the roll call vote for President.

This article says already 11 presidential candidates have qualified for the Colorado November 2016 ballot. Furthermore, more may file, because the deadline is not until August 10. Not all the five qualified parties have certified their presidential nominees, but the author assumed that each one would do that.

The story says Colorado had 17 presidential candidates in 2012, but actually Colorado had 16. The author seems to have erroneously included a write-in candidate from 2012.

Colorado also had 16 presidential candidates in 2008. No state other than Colorado has ever had more than 14 presidential candidates on its general election ballot. Presidential candidates qualify by paying $1,000 and submitting a list of presidential elector candidates.