Last month, Rod Silva announced that he has formed the Nutrition Party and that he will be its 2016 presidential nominee. He has since qualified to appear on the November 2016 Colorado ballot. Here is the campaign web page. Silva owns a restaurant chain that is focused on only serving healthful food. So far he does not have a vice-presidential running mate.

The Prohibition Party has also already qualified to appear on the Colorado ballot for President. The ballot-qualified parties in Colorado are Republican, Democratic, Constitution, Green, and Libertarian.

The South Dakota independent presidential petition deadline for 2016 is August 4, not April 26. The September 1, 2015 Ballot Access News print edition erroneously said that deadline had been moved to April.

Some years earlier, the independent presidential petition deadline had been moved out of section 12-7-1 and into a separate section, 12-7-7. The January 1, 2016 print edition of Ballot Access News will have a presidential petitioning chart showing the August 4 deadline.

Presidential primary filing has now closed in fifteen states. In every Republican presidential primary so far, there are at least twelve candidates on the ballot. That is a stark difference from the past. If one looks at the previous election years in which a Republican president was not running for re-election, there were always some Republican presidential primaries with many fewer candidates. Examples: in 2012, Virginia had two; in 2008, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Oregon had two; in 2000, D.C., Indiana, New Jersey, and Oregon had two; in 1996, Arkansas, D.C., Indiana, New Jersey, and New York had three; in 1988, New Jersey had one; in 1980, Ohio had two.

Of course, in the states in which filing hasn’t yet closed, chances are there will be some states with fewer than twelve, as candidates drop out. The last state in which the list of candidates will be set (for Republicans) is South Dakota, where the date is March 29, 2016.