Primary ballot access megathread

[ill ind]

  Filing in Illinois starts today, and the deadline is Wednesday.  The deadline for filing petition challenges is Wednesday the 13ts, so that opens a whole new can of worms as to who will eventually end up on the ballot.

So far for the Dems, Clinton has filed and for the GOP Bush, Cruz, Christie and Trump have filed.  These candidates have filed full delegate slates as well--which is where the REAL election is held.  The number of delegates per Congressional District is based on how many votes the party received in that district in the last election.  The GOP has very few delegate slots for districts 1,2,4 while the Dems have few for 15, or 18.

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[ill ind]

  I forgot to add that former Chicago Mayoral candidate Willie Wilson filed for the Dems and Marco Rubio for the GOP, but as of yet, there are no delegate candidates for either, which means they are only in the meaningless 'beauty contest' portion of the race.

  If Mr Rubio is unable to file a delegate slate, I believe that it would cast considerable doubt upon his ability to build enough organization to get the nomination.

Ill Ind

[ill ind]

  Let me correct myself again

Only the Democrats apportion delegates and alternate delegates to each Congressional District based on the vote in the past election.

A full slate for each district would look like:  Same number for delegates and alternate delegates is filed.
1st-9
2nd-8
3rd-5
4th-5
5th-6
6th-5
7th-9
8th-4
9th-7
10th-5
11th-5
12th-6
13th-5
14th-4
15th-4
16th-5
17th-6
18th-4

For the GOP a full slate for each Congressional District consists of 3 delegates and 3 alternates.

Ill Ind

[ill ind]

Il update

 There is 1 stray delegate filing for Gilmore in the 10th, and 1 stray delegate filing for Sanders in the 7th.  Rand Paul has also filed for the beauty contest portion of the race.

Ill Ind

[ill ind]

  As of lunch time, you can add Fiorina to the GOP beauty contest and De La Fuente to the Dem one.  A rogue Clinton delegate candidate has filed and 2 have filed to be Huckabee delegates.

Ill Ind

[ill ind]

5:00pm CDT

Looks like Fiorina is going to have delegates--so far slates have been filed for Districts 1 and 2.
Huckabee has filed for the beauty contest.

Ill_Ind

[ill ind]

  So far 4 Santorum delegates have filed.  I'm guessing that these are individuals and not an effort by the campaign.  There are 2 individuals who filed as Huckabee delegates as well.  Both candidates will probably have pretty incomplete slates when the day is done.

Ill Ind

[ill ind]

Yes Santorum and Huckabee did file for the beauty contest as did Rand Paul also.
Some dude from Chicago named Larry Cohen has filed in the Dem beauty contest too.

[ill ind]

  Sanders has now filed for the beauty contest.  We'll see in the next couple of hours whether or not he has complete slates of delegates.  Clinton has filled 102 delegate spots, O'Malley 41,Sanders ?

Ill Ind

[ill ind]

 Sanders delegates filing going on now.  Looks like he will have as many or more filings than HRC

[ill ind]

As of right now 3:40pm Rubio has zero delegates filed.  If he has none, it would be a tremendous blow to the viability of his campaign IMHO.  "All hat and no cowboy" as they say in Texas.

[ill ind]

Kasich is now showing up with delegate filings

[ill ind]

Absolutely nothing on Carson, beauty contest or delegate filings.  Same thing as with Rubio-not filing a slate of delegates (getting on the beauty contest ballot is easy) would mean that his campaign is more bark than bite.

[ill ind]

5:00pm Central Time

[ill ind]

 
Some pretty heavy GOP party insiders in those Kasich filings

[ill ind]

  Now we have until next Wednesday in Illinois for objections to petitions to be filed.  Depending on the objection, several delegate candidates could be tossed from the ballot.  It will not be until the end of January before we see who actually is on the ballot and who is not.

  In 2012, objections were filed to every single GOP candidate and their respective slates of delegates.  The campaigns then all got together and decide to drop all of the objections-I guess to keep the campaigns from being tied up in a month of legal wrangling to see who would actually be on the ballot.

Ill Ind