Nine presidential petitions have been submitted to the Minnesota Secretary of State. If they are all valid, then Minnesota will have eleven presidential candidates on the November ballot. In Minnesota, as in half the states, independent candidates are free to choose a partisan label other than just the word “independent.”
The petitions are for the presidential nominees of these parties: Constitution, Grassroots, Green, Justice, Libertarian, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Socialist, and Socialist Workers. Also one independent presidential candidate. Dean Morstad, filed.
Minnesota had eleven presidential candidates on the November 1996 ballot. Thanks to Jim Ivey for this news.
11, that’s a good number. Inclusiveness with some minor restrictions on it is a great way to do ballot access.
A couple of additional note:
1) It may be twelve. A volunteer for the Justice Party indicated that he thought Roseanne Barr’s campaign had also submitted signatures. The sheet at the Secretary of State’s office listing submitted petitions didn’t show them on it this morning, but it doesn’t necessarily get updated immediately. Five of those submissions were yesterday, August 21, on the final day of filing, and they’re shown on the list, but there might have been more that didn’t get recorded.
2) Dean Morstad’s party label was listed as “Constitutional Government”.
If anyone’s curious, here’s a photo of the submission sheet from the MN SoS office: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151108213837280
And one more… here’s the link to the MN SoS website, where listings are updated after petitions are reviewed and approved. http://candidates.sos.state.mn.us/CandidateFilingResults.aspx?federal=True
So was it ever confirmed that Roseanne submitted signatures or not??
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richard is Minn. the only state that allows at the polls voter registration?
@7 I don’t think so, I’ve heard other states do it
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Day_voter_registration:
“Eight states have some form of Election Day voter registration: Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Wyoming, and Washington DC. Montana began Election Day voter registration in 2006, and Iowa in 2008. Connecticut and Rhode Island also have Election Day registration, but only for presidential elections. (North Dakota, unique among the states, has no voter registration requirement at all.)”
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Dean Morstad’s party label was listed as “Constitutional Government”.