August 1 is the Massachusetts deadline for petitions for independent candidates for statewide office and U.S. House, and also for the nominees of unqualified parties for those offices. It is too early to know whether any petitions have enough valid signatures. Presidential candidates who took out papers are: Gary Johnson, Rocky De La Fuente, and William Feegbeh. According to information on the internet, Feegbeh was born in Liberia.
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.
