The campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has submitted over 5,000 signatures this week in an effort to appear on the Nebraska ballot. As a result, Nebraska becomes Kennedy’s fourteenth state where he has submitted enough signatures to satisfy ballot access requirements.
According to a press release by the Kennedy campaign on Tuesday, Kennedy submitted 5,023 signatures to qualify for the ballot as an independent candidate. The campaign had until August 1 to submit all the necessary signatures, along with a list of presidential electors. The total required amount to appear on the ballot as an independent is 2,500, meaning the campaign collected well beyond the minimum threshold.
“Today is a historic day as we submit paperwork to get Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the ballot in the Cornhusker State,” said Midwest Regional Director Lane Koch in the release. “It’s been a privilege to work with our dedicated volunteers to ensure voters have an independent option at the ballot box this November.”
Nebraska is now the fourteenth state where the Kennedy campaign has submitted enough signatures to satisfy state ballot access requirements, along with New Hampshire, Nevada, North Carolina, Idaho, Iowa, Ohio, New Jersey, New York, Florida, Minnesota, Tennessee, Alaska, and Washington. The campaign has also since formally qualified to appear on the ballot in eight states, including California, Delaware, Hawaii, Michigan, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, and Utah.
Editorial note: A previous version of this article listed Nebraska as Kennedy’s most recent potential next state to qualify for ballot access. However, the state certification process will not finish until September 1, and the previous statement does not realistically reflect the likelihood of the campaign qualifying in another state before then.
“My curiosity doesn’t rise to digging through the currentliness of wiki sources, talk page, et cetera […] SOS and equivalent sites and other information disseminating methods. Too many for me to keep up with, LOL. U?”
Lazy Karen is lazy. She says she can’t be bothered to follow up Wikipedia’s sources, keep an eye on their edit history, talk page and talk archives, or hunt down info on each secretary of state’s website. Yet that is precisely where she might be able to find the information that she is looking for. As Jaime Healy-Plotkin says, “Research of state election agency websites and email correspondence with state election agencies” is how Ballotpedia tracks ballot access for each campaign.
What Karen is in effect asking, is for other people to go to the effort to do what she says she’s too lazy to do herself, and to then provide her with quick and easy answers, as well as with links to their sources in order to convince her of their accuracy. Unless she can either train an AI to scrape and mine such data for her and then query it without it hallucinating too much, or somehow get and stay directly in touch with insiders in each secretary of state’s office without sharing her E-mail, her best bet is to just roll up her sleeves and do what she wants other people to do for her.
Something someone posted about trying to keep current on the Cornel West campaign ballot access. A lot of it applies across campaign’s:
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Comrade Mahoney – thanks! What information sources are you using for that answer?
I’m not a BAN Subscriber; I’m not allowed to disclose the only email addresses I actually remember to check, and I’m physically way too on the move for snail mail and paper to be a useful info delivery method for me.
This time of the month, the subscription only version of BAN is nearly a month out of date. The publicly available one is about two months out of date, as far as the currentliness of the info.
That leaves few info sources on this that I know of:
1 – Wikipedia. That’s only as good as who edited it and when.
Looking at several wiki articles, I’m finding that he’s on the ballot in Alaska, Oregon, Utah, Colorado, Vermont and South Carolina. Using my fingers, that does come to six, LOL.
That’s also what the public monthly BAN info from two moons ago says. My curiosity doesn’t rise to digging through the currentliness of wiki sources, talk page, et cetera;
It says he is awaiting state certification in North Carolina and Michigan.
It does not say how many states are in progress. BAN does, but see above, regarding currency.
2 – SOS and equivalent sites and other information disseminating methods.
Too many for me to keep up with, LOL. U?
3 – the campaign. I’m not on their lists or socials. I don’t assume anything on those would be current or accurate. U?
I for sure for sure don’t assume their website (if they even have one) is up to date. U?
4 – petitioner grapevine. I’m out of the loop, and based on prior experience, trust it less far than I can throw it. U?
5 – what else would U suggest?
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End of post at BALLOT ACCESS NEWS.
Anyone here have other suggestions for any of the campaigns?
There are several related wiki pages which may be updated more or less frequently, etc.
Some additional details at
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_and_independent_candidates_for_the_2024_United_States_presidential_election
I haven’t dug Into cross checking their linked sources , talk page, etc
Certified for ballot (10 states, 149 electors)[viii]
Petition awaiting certification (14 states, 193 electors)[ix]
Petition submitted, in dispute (1 state, 6 electors)[x]
As of today, the Kennedy campaign claims they have finished over 20 states for 348 electors. Some of those claims are dubious at best. Same link as bottom comment.
That’s a good point and one I’ll keep in mind moving forward, given that this state’s particular certification process technically runs until September 1. There’s always the chance the process could be quick, but if not, I imagine the Kennedy campaign will likely have its tenth official state before then. I’ve since updated things for the sake of clarity.
JWE:
Hello? Thoughts?
You’re not counting the states they finished but which have not been certified yet. Does Nebraska certify much quicker than others?
See
https://www.kennedy24.com/ballot-access