On July 9, Indiana county election officials reported validity checks for the independent Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. petition. Taken together, the county reports show he has enough valid signatures. See this story.
Kennedy needed more valid signatures from Indiana than from any other states except for Texas, New York and Arizona.
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.
The June 1, 2024 print issue of Ballot Access News carried a chart showing the number of registered voters in each party, in each state. At that time fourteen states were providing data on the number of voters registered in the No Labels Party, and the national total for No Labels was 112,016.
Since then, there is new data from nine states, and in eight of them, the number of people registered in No Labels has risen. Here are the nine states, with the June newsletter data first and the July (current) data next:
Colorado: 7,969; 9,266
Delaware: 1,768; 1,755
Kansas: 39; 242
Maryland: 234; 1,858
North Carolina: 7,799; 14,208
Oregon: 2,183; 2,569
South Dakota: 19; 26
Utah: 2,095; 2,447
Wyoming: 14; 71
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.
On June 1, the ballot-qualified Legal Marijuana Now Party of Nebraska nominated Cornel West for president.
