On Tuesday, July 9, the North Carolina Board of Elections certified the Constitution Party for ballot status in North Carolina. The Board still has not ruled as to whether Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Cornel West will be placed on the 2024 North Carolina general election ballot.

The rub is that the CP, Kennedy and West all used the political party petition process to get on the ballot, because North Carolina law (absurdly, in my view) requires only 13,757 signatures for a political party to qualify for the ballot this year, while an independent candidate for President must gather 82,542 signatures. There is a deep history, in NC and a few other states, of independent candidates using the party petition process to qualify for the ballot when the signature requirement is lower for political parties than independent candidates. But, this year there is a controversy with the NC Board of Elections as to whether that signature reducing maneuver is legal.

Here is a story on this matter.

Thanks to Chris Cole for the heads up!

News stories from July 6 have reported that the officers of the Colorado Libertarian Party had nominated Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., for president. However, the only paperwork submitted to the Colorado Secretary of State regarding the party’s presidential ticket was filed on July 8 by the national Secretary of the Libertarian Party, and that paperwork says Chase Oliver is the party’s presidential nominee. Thanks to ThirdPartyWatch for this news.

UPDATE: Independent Political Report has more detail.

On June 28, the No Labels website posted a statement titled “Angry”. See it here. It was posted in response to the Trump-Biden debate of the previous day. It expresses sadness that the No Labels process had not produced a presidential nominee, and anger at the forces that disrupted the entry of a No Labels nominee.