This kid will be running for president for the next three decades, against his will

Washington Post:

Meet Andrew Lessig, the first declared candidate for the 2048 election.

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How does one inadvertently become a presidential candidate and then forget about it? "I was very interested in politics back when I was in middle school," he told me. His candidacy "grew out of an education program I was doing with the Boy Scouts. I was putting on the meeting program one month and I wanted to do it on civics. I looked into it, and looked into what it actually takes to run for federal office." Lessig discovered that it's as simple as filling out a two-page form.



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And that's when things got messy.

"I remember getting a bunch of election law stuff from the FEC after a while and not realizing what I had gotten myself into," he said. The problem with setting up a candidate committee is that you are required to regularly file with the government to detail how much money you raised and spent and so on.