On August 16, the New Jersey State Supreme Court refused to hear Ayyadurai v New Jersey State Democratic Committee.  This is the lawsuit filed by independent presidential candidate Shiva Ayyadurai to get on the ballot.  He has enough valid signatures but he is being barred because he was born in India, although he has lived in the United States since the age of seven.

Here is his fiing, which argues several points, including the fact that the true candidates are presidential elector candidates and they are qualified; and New Jersey precedent, in which five times in the past, New Jersey did print the names of minor party or independent candidates for president or vice-president on the ballot even though they were under age 35.  There are other arguments as well.

On August 15, the Wisconsin Democratic Party challenged Jill stein’ ballot status, even though the Green Party is a ballot-qualified party in Wisconsin. Democratic objectors say only a party with members in the legislature are permitted to run candidates for presidential elector. Also the objectors say she was late to file her list of elector candidates. See the objection here.

In the past, when parties were late with their list of electors, the mistake has always been forgiven. Even the major parties have sometimes been late.

The National Archives has the results of past electoral college votes, and its pages for each election show the state in which the candidates lived.  The 1956 results list Dwight Eisenhower as a resident of New York.  See here.  Scroll down to see the state of each candidate.

It is extremely unlikely that Eisenhower really lived in New York in 1956.  He was president of Columbia University before he became president in 1952, so of course he had a connection to New York in 1952.  But in 1950 he and his wife Mamie had bought the only home they ever owned, a farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.  It needed renovation and wasn’t ready for their occupancy until 1954.  Given that they did have that home from 1954 on, and also given that obviously he spent most of his time in the White House 1953-1961, it seems very unlikely he had a real residence in New York city in 1956.

This is perhaps relevant to the controversy over the residence of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., which threatens his ballot status in New York.