Yesterday was the deadline for unqualified parties and independent candidates to file for President in Colorado. A total of 13 candidates could appear on the ballot.

The Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, Green, and Constitution parties still have time to submit the names of their nominees).

The following additional candiates filed signatures by yesterday’s deadline:

Ralph Nader – Unaffiliated
Jonathan Allen – Heartquake 08
Bradford Lyttle – Pacifist
Gene Amondson – Prohibition
Gloria LaRiva – Socialism
Brian Moore – Socialist
Elvena Lloyd-Duffie – Republican [this label will need to change]
Frank McEnulty – Unaffiliated

U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), according to this news story, believes that his party should use “winner-take-all” presidential primaries in 2012. The article erroneously says that Republicans used that kind of primary this year. Actually, most Republican presidential primaries were not “winner-take-all”; in many states, each U.S. House district elected its own Republican delegates.

If the Democratic Party had used “winner-take-all” presidential primaries in 1972, George Wallace would have received all the delegates from Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina, Maryland, and Michigan.

On June 7, Suzy Hamblen died. She was age 101, and was the widow of Prohibition Party presidential nominee Stuart Hamblen, who ran in 1952. See this story. Stuart Hamblen himself died in 1989.