Atlanta Civic Circle Article Gives More Detail about Georgia Presidential Ballot Access Fight

Posted on by August 29, 2024
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This Atlanta Civic Circle article has details about the decision of an Administrative Law Judge to exclude all the petitioning presidential candidates in Georgia this year, as well as his decision rejecting the new law that should have let Jill Stein on the ballot because her party is on for president in at least twenty other states.

The Administrative Law Judge’s ruling is not the final word. The Secretary of State will decide.

An interesting detail near the end of the story quotes one particular voter, who says he had been planning to vote for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., but now that Kennedy will not be on the Georgia ballot, that voter intends to vote for Donald Trump.

August 2024 Ballot Access News Print Edition

Posted on by August 28, 2024
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MOST BALLOT CHALLENGES AGAINST MINOR PARTY AND INDEPENDENT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES IN HISTORY

Even though the petition deadlines for minor party and independent presidential candidates have not yet passed in most states, already eight minor party and independent presidential candidates are facing challenges to their ballot access.  This is the highest number of such candidates in history.

“Challenge” means an outside individual or group initiated an administrative action or a lawsuit to keep someone off the ballot.  It does not mean that the state election office itself kept a candidate off the ballot.

Generally, when challenges are mounted to a minor party or independent presidential candidate, only one such candidate is the target, or two at the most.  But 2024 is very different, as this list shows:

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Florida Reform Party, At Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Request, Withdraws His Name

Posted on by August 28, 2024
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The Florida Reform Party, which had nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for president, has withdrawn Kennedy’s name from the ballot, at Kennedy’s request.  Kennedy does not want to be on the ballot in swing states.

The seven presidential candidates who are on the Florida ballot are the nominees of the Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, Green, Constitution, American Solidarity, and Socialism & Liberation Parties.

Nevada State Court Dismisses Democratic Challenge to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Petition “With Prejudice”

Posted on by August 28, 2024
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On August 27, the Nevada Democratic Party and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. settled the lawsuit that had been filed to keep him off the ballot.  The judge signed an agreement in which the Democratic case is dismissed “with prejudice”, which means that if it were to be filed again, the assumption would be that it had already lost.

In exchange, Kennedy withdrew from the Nevada ballot, which he had been wanting to do anyway.  Otherwise it would have been too late for him to withdraw.  Nevada is considered a swing state, and Kennedy doesn’t want to be on the ballot in swing states.

The Democratic challenge had claimed that Kennedy couldn’t be an independent in Nevada, because he is a minor party nominee in certain other states.  That challenge was exceedingly weak because a presidential election technically is 51 separate elections for presidential electors, and the 51 separate elections have nothing to do with each other.  Furthermore every presidential candidate running outside the two major parties who had polled at least 25,000 votes nationwide has always used a mixture of methods to get on the ballot.  And no court had ever ruled that a presidential candidate can’t be on the ballot in one state because of his or her activity in another state.  The Nevada case was Rockefeller v Aguilar, First Judicial District, 24 OC 00011.