KANSAS HOUSE PASSES BILL QUADRUPLING INDEPENDENT STATEWIDE PETITION

On February 22, the Kansas House passed HB 2516 by a vote of 68-52.  It increases the statewide independent candidate petition from 5,000 signatures to 2% of the last gubernatorial vote, which would be 20,180 signatures.  The bill would take effect immediately.

If the bill becomes law, Kansas would have the nation’s most severe procedure for a presidential candidate running outside the major parties, if the states are compared using the easiest method to get on the ballot, and if they are compared on a percentage basis.  Currently Wyoming has the nation’s most severe petition percentage for president, 1.40% of the Wyoming vote for president in 2020.  The bill would put Kansas at 1.47% of the Kansas 2020 presidential vote.

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The We the People has finished its petition in signatures in North Carolina..  The We the People Party supports Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., for president.  See this story.

As already reported, on Thursday evening, March 28, a U.S. District Court ordered office-group ballots for the June 4 primaries.  On March 30, a Saturday, the judge, in response to a question from the Republican Party, clarified that his March 28 order only applies to the Democratic primary, not the Republican primary.

On March 30, fifteen county clerks asked the judge for a stay.  But on March 30 Burlington County wrote to say it does not request a stay.  On Sunday, March 31, the Hudson County Clerk said his office does not seek a stay either.  It is quite unusual for different county governments to disagree with each other in a lawsuit in which they had all been sued.