2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAt close of business today, the names on the ballots will be set in 30 states.
September 9 is the last drop dead date in the last four states, after which the names are set on the ballot in all 50 states.
FSogol
(45,532 posts)[font size=196] HAW-HAW[/font]
KMOD
(7,906 posts)LexVegas
(6,107 posts)highprincipleswork
(3,111 posts)Funtatlaguy
(10,887 posts)Just because he and the National Journal and the Mormon Church are backing him?
Will he get on these ballots as an Independent?
Doesn't he need a certain number of signatures per state?
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Not sure what states he may have already qualified for, but there is no way possible for him to be on all 50 state ballots. It's already too late for that.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)sofa king
(10,857 posts)Ironically, it was Democrats who provided the legal argument which allows ballots to be changed after the deadline, when "Rug" Torricelli was replaced with Frank Lautenberg for the New Jersey Senate race in 2002, twenty days after the ballot deadline.
That argument was in turn cynically pinned in part to the Supreme Court decision which stole the election for George W. Bush in 2000, guaranteeing that the U.S. Supreme Court would not intervene against the NJ Supreme Court.
The good news is that it will cost Republicans many millions of dollars in legal fees in states across the nation, but consider also that most states are controlled by Republican legislatures and conservative judges at the top. So it's an easy change and the GOP won't have to think too hard about how to do it.