Here is an Alaska ballot for November 2024, showing the eight presidential candidates and the ability of voters to rank all of them if they wish.
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On September 25, the Georgia Supreme Court issued an opinion in Al-Bari v Pigg, S25A0177. It agrees with the lower court that independent presidential candidates cannot petition in Georgia. Instead, only independent presidential elector candidates may petition.
Because the ballots are already being printed, the candidates who had petitioned are on the ballot. The Court said votes for them should not be counted. The two presidential candidates who petitioned, and who were told they had enough valid signatures, are Claudia De la Cruz and Cornel West.
This is another instance at which the candidates followed the instructions of the Secretary of State, and yet were kept off the ballot even though they submitted enough signatures.
On September 25, New York state filed this brief in opposition to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s request to be put on the ballot.
On September 25, the Ohio Secretary of State said he won’t count votes for Jill Stein, even though she is on the ballot as an independent presidential candidate. This is because the Ohio Greens sent in paperwork to swap out the stand-in vice-presidential nominee, Anita Rios, with the actual vice-presidential nominee, Butch Ware. The paperwork caused the problem. The due date for withdrawal is later than the due date for a new nominee. Therefore, the Ohio Secretary of State deemed the withdrawal of the stand-in to be timely, and he interpreted it as a withdrawal of Jill Stein herself and the stand-in vice-presidential candidate. But he deemed the new vice-presidential name to be too late.
There are other states in the past in which presidential candidates appeared on the November ballot without a vice-presidential nominee, but no such instances in Ohio.
The Green Party hopes to bring a lawsuit to overturn the decision. In the meantime elections officials have already prepared a postal mailing to all the voters who received an absentee ballot, telling them votes for Stein won’t count.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is on the ballot in 32 jurisdictions (including Wisconsin, which might change). Generally his ballot label is “independent” (or whatever term that state uses for independent candidates, such as “unaffiliated” or “nonpartisan”). But in thirteen states, he has a party label.
In Oregon, he created a new ballot-qualified party, the We the People Party. He is also on the ballot with the label “We the People” in seven states that permit an independent candidate to choose a partisan label beyond just “independent”. They are Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Minnesota, Montana, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin. In Rhode Island he chose the label “Team Kennedy.”
Also he is on the ballot as the nominee of pre-existing qualified parties in these states: California (American Independent), Delaware (Independent Party), and Michigan (Natural Law Party).