Does anyone know of a good website that lists all (or most) of the political parties who will have a presidential candidate on the ballot? I imagine there must be at least a couple dozen.
Thanks
Project Vote Smart (found here is a pretty well-regarded US campaigns and elections site. They currently have information on a VERY large number of candidates who were seeking their parties’ nominations.
It is probably still a bit early to answer your specific question, I would guess that ballot access is not fully determined until some time in September - but that is a guess.
Of course, ballot access is a matter of state law - so it might also be worth checking your home state’s Secretary of State’s office web site to see if they will have the official list posted.
You also might want to check out Selectsmart.com and take their Presidential selector quiz. You can also compare candidates head to head.
That is positively the most ugly, poorly designed and terribly implimented web site I’ve seen all week.
They have some good info though (if you can wade through all the crap)
> I imagine there must be at least a couple dozen
I don’t think so. As far as I know, the only minor parties on every state’s ballot are the Libertarian, Reform, & Green parties.
Here’s another site with brief description of party objectives, if any, candidates they are fielding, and links. Lots more whackadoo’s out there than I thought.
It would be hard to list all of them at the moment, since it appears that there will be far more lawsuits than decisions within the Reform party. When they nominate two separate candidates in a couple of days, every state where they have made it onto the ballot is going to be forced to recognize one or another of the candidates–at which point the “other guy” is going to go to court. So we will now watch the “reformers” splinter to smithereens while wasting lots of state (and federal) court time and money wrangling over who was the “real” candidate.
The Reform Party is no party, merely a mailing list that is due to collect $12.7 million in federal funds. Let’s hope their lawsuits stay minimal and out of the federal system.