Colorado Will Have At Least Eleven Presidential Candidates on November 2016 Ballot

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.

Better for America Petition for Party Status in New Mexico Lacks Sufficient Valid Signatures

Better for America, the group of anti-Trump conservatives, had filed a petition to be a qualified party in New Mexico, but the Secretary of State determined that it did not have enough signatures. It needed 2,565 valid signatures and was approximately 140 signatures short. The group tried to show that it really did have enough valid signatures, but did not do so.

The only other state in which Better for America submitted a party petition was in Arkansas. That petition is still being checked.