On February 7, No Labels Party of Arizona asked the U.S. District Court not to stay its own opinion that lets the party bar candidates from running in its primary. The U.S. District Court had ruled that No Labels may bar candidates from its primary, for congressional and state office. The state has asked the U.S. District Court to stay that opinion while the state appeals. Here is the No Labels brief.
On ABC’s Good Morning America, Christie said that he was open to a spot on the No Labels ticket, but would need to talk to his wife about it and see a path to 270 electoral votes and victory in the presidential election.
Thanks to politicalwire.com.
On February 6, the New York State Board of Elections refused to remove former President Donald Trump from the April Republican presidential primary ballot. See this story. Objectors to Trump say they will now file a lawsuit to reverse the decision. Thanks to Joe Burns for the link.
Here is a link to the Nevada presidential primary election returns.
On February 7, the Kansas House Elections Committee passed HB 2516. As amended, it increases the statewide independent petition from exactly 5,000 signtures, to 2% of the last gubernatorial vote. This would give Kansas the nation’s highest percentage requirement for presidential candidates running outside the two major parties. For 2024, the petition would be 20,818 signatures, which is 1.47% of the Kansas November 2020 presidential vote.
When the 2024 presidential percentage procedures of each state are compared with each other, this would give Kansas the most difficult requirement of any state. The fairest way to compare each state is to calculate the number of signatures in 2024, divided by the number of votes cast for president in 2020. Currently the most difficult percentage (using the easiest method to get on the ballot) is Wyoming, which stands at 1.40%. The only other states currently above 1.01% are California at 1.25%, Indiana at 1.22%, and North Dakota at 1.10%. Thanks to Eric Lund for this news.
