Presidential candidate filing information from the New York Board of Elections indicates that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is likely the only independent or third party candidate to submit enough total signatures to qualify for the New York ballot later this year.
According to the New York Board of Elections, which tracks presidential candidate filing information, five third party and independent candidates filed signatures to appear on the ballot later this year. Included in that list are Libertarian Party nominee Chase Oliver, Green Party candidate Jill Stein, and independent candidates Shiva Ayyadurai, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Cornel West. The latter two are attempting to appear on the ballot through the We The People Party and the Justice For All Party lines, respectively.
To qualify for the New York ballot, third party and independent presidential candidates had until May 28, 2024, to file a petition containing at least 45,000 signatures or 1% of the total number of votes cast for governor in the last gubernatorial election, with at least 500 signatures coming from half of the state’s congressional districts.
While specific numbers of submitted signatures are not yet known, information on the total number of volumes and pages submitted by each campaign, as well as contextual information from statements made by the Kennedy and Stein campaigns indicate that a majority of candidates will likely fall short of the necessary amount of signatures. Readers can view a list showing the total number of volumes and pages submitted by each campaign below:
| Candidate Name | Ballot Designation | Volumes Submitted | Pages Submitted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai | Independent | 15 volumes | 145 pages |
| Dr. Jill Stein | Green Party | 64 volumes | 6,709 pages |
| Cornel West | Justice for All | 26 volumes | 629 pages |
| Chase Oliver | Libertarian Party | 8 volumes | 384 pages |
| Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | We The People | 75 volumes | 16,316 pages |
Of the five campaigns, only the Kennedy campaign announced that it had submitted enough signatures to qualify for the ballot outright. Last Tuesday, the Kennedy campaign said in a press release that it delivered 135,519 signatures to the New York State Board of Elections. The campaign also claims to have submitted more signatures than any presidential candidate has ever submitted in the state.
Additionally, Jill Stein has acknowledged that her signature-collecting efforts fell short of the required amount, stating in a video on Monday that her supporters collected just over 42,000 signatures. However, she already said last week that she would challenge the decision in court. Stein also added in her initial post regarding the court challenger that her campaign collected “[ten] times more” signatures than that of her fellow challengers, specifically referencing the Libertarian Party and the Cornel West campaign.
“We got ten times more signatures than all the other grassroots campaigns, including the Libertarians, who have never failed to get on the ballot before,” Stein said again in her latest video. “They have been on all 50 states in each of the last two presidential elections. So they have never failed, and you know how many signatures they got? Somewhere less than 4,000, and we got 42,000—just let that sink in.”
The Oliver, West, and Ayyadurai campaigns have not made statements or addressed their ballot access efforts in New York since the deadline.
With Kennedy on the ballot in NY, and likely to be a significant third party candidate, Biden loses another “key” to his re-election.
From what I’ve read he’s a leftist attorney from Texas who used to be involved with the Green Party and is a socialist. Not sure if full tankie but somewhere close to it at least. He said he plans to write in Claudia de la Cruz from one of the Marxist mini parties. He has a blog, where his thoughts appear to be coherent, regardless of how much or little I agree with them. The disjointed stream of consciousness below is probably due to being in a hurry and presuming the audience is filling in the gaps for things not stated explicitly. I think I can follow them, but don’t feel like translating.
Did he expect me to give a complete and comprehensive list of every single ineligible uniparty member who ever ran for office? If so, why? I never game any indication such was my intention. No, he is actually just coping and seething that the uniparty’s hypocrisy is being called out. Typical uniparty fascist.
Perhaps, but it is also a cowards way out of admitting he is incapable of stringing a single English sentence, let alone a coherent thought together.
“I’m not engaging further” appears to be in English.
“put my nicknames with the two candidates”, “on you blowing it on missing Hughes”
Again, I don’t think this is English. Even if it is, I certainly do not understand what you are trying to say.
You are the one who brought up Hughes, I never mentioned him. I also never mentioned Kamala Harris, Nikki Haley, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal, or any of the countless other ineligibles who were given a free pass for being part of the uniparty. What is your point?
Nuña, you should be able to put my nicknames, in my first comment, with the two candidates you mentioned.
The second comment is clear, as far as the background of the claim against Arthur, and on you blowing it on missing Hughes.
I’m not engaging further. Puhleeze.
@Jim
John McCain wasn’t born in the Panama Canal Zone, but off-base in a Panamanian hospital outside the Canal Zone.
Whereas Chester Arthur and Barack Obama’s fathers weren’t American citizens at the time of their sons births.
Ergo, none of them were eligible to be president (or vice-president) under the natural born citizen clause.
The same is true of Shiva Ayyadurai, the only reason his case is being treated differently, is that he’s not part of the uniparty; worse – i.e. better – still, he is critical of the untested and unsafe gene-therapies that the uniparty misrepresents as “vaccines”, and of the genetic modification that the uniparty is pushing to destroy the genetic diversity of our food crops.
It’s a shame that he fell into same trap as Michael Rectenwald when it comes to the arab invasion of Israel, otherwise he would have been a viable candidate.
@SocraticGadfly
I can’t even begin to parse what you tried to convey with either comment. When I read them out loud, it sounds like I’m having a stroke. Please try again.
Ahh, here we go. It’s a patriarchy claim that doesn’t have legal value, claiming that US citizenship can only pass from a male US-born citizen, and that Chet, whose mom was born in the US but dad was not, therefore didn’t qualify. https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/five-other-presidential-birther-controversies-from-american-history
Wrong!
AND, wrong on inconsistency, Nuña, and I’m going to trump you. (I see what I did.)
By your own argument, per the link, Charles Evans Hughes was also not a “natural born citizen.”
OOPS! You missed one.
Nuña, your (whatever) on Dear Leader and Schmuck Talk Express is “duly noted” and “appropriately filed.” Never heard this before on Chet Arthur, so “do tell” as I do teh Google?
Arthur born in Vermont, Obama born in Hawaii, McCain born on a US military base in the Panama Canal Zone, Shiva Ayyadurai born in Mumbai, India. One of these things is not like the others…
Neither Chester Arthur (R), nor Barack Obama (D) were natural born US citizens – nor was John McCain (R) for that matter – why would Shiva Ayyadurai be given a different treatment. Oh right, because he isn’t part of the uniparty and has some actually sensible ideas…
When Angela said “NY is already done” in response to someone asking why she wasn’t helping with that instead of Alex Jones, I didn’t realize that’s what she meant. by “done.”
LPNY gathered so few signatures because the national LP didn’t fund or organise the ballot drive. Typically, that contributes 90% of the signatures, and not only in NY.
According to the Boston-based Universal Hub, Shiva Ayyadurai had ballot access nowhere as of early May. There’s also the question of him being born in Mumbai, India, which hasn’t been fully addressed yet.
“Because [Shiva Ayyadurai] has no actual legal ‘injury’ yet, he has no “standing” to bring suit in federal court, US District Court Judge Loren L. AliKhan ruled. And that means she did not have to address his argument that Article II of the Constitution – which requires presidents to be “natural born” – has been overridden by the 1st, 5th and 14th amendments.”
Link: https://www.universalhub.com/2024/judge-tosses-father-e-mails-suit-get-presidential
“Any idea why LPNY gathered so few signatures?”
Most likely, they were outbid for paid petitioners by other candidates.
Shiva Ayyadurai is running for President? How many ballots is he on now?
Any idea why LPNY gathered so few signatures?