Kanye Ballot Access: Yeezus or Bust?

[Skill and Chance]

So another update: Alaska's deadline passed yesterday with no filing.

So here's the current map:

If he doesn't submit ~200K valid signatures in CA by Friday, he's mathematically excluded from 270 EV and can't appear in an official presidential debate.

[Neo-Malthusian Misanthrope]

If he doesn't submit ~200K valid signatures in CA by Friday, he's mathematically excluded from 270 EV and can't appear in an official presidential debate.

This is Kanye, there's nothing stopping him from appearing on stage (other than himself)

Yo Donald, I'm really happy for you and Ima let you finish...

[The Other Castro]

https://twitter.com/JeffreyCook/status/1291401201184124930

[woodley park]

Maybe my take will look incredibly shortsighted in retrospect, but Kanye’s campaign is getting hardly any traction as a story. I see it discussed here and nowhere else. It’s hard to see how he makes any difference in the states where he manages to get on the ballot, even in swing states.

[BaldEagle1991]

Maybe my take will look incredibly shortsighted in retrospect, but Kanye’s campaign is getting hardly any traction as a story. I see it discussed here and nowhere else. It’s hard to see how he makes any difference in the states where he manages to get on the ballot, even in swing states.

That's a good sign, because the less media attention he is getting the less likely he has a chance to be a spoiler.

[The Mikado]

Up today: Connecticut and California. West hasn't been reported to be trying on either, and CA is essentially impossible. We'll see if CT comes through, though.

[DINGO Joe]

That turncoat Bernie Sanders has moved to Wisconsin and signed Kanye's petition

https://twitter.com/DanielBice/status/1291801914661896199

There are screen shots of a couple other pages of the Wisconsin petitions including Mickey Mouse and Kanye West himself signing it.  Besides that, there are other problems with the submitted pages that will be hard to get enough confirmed as valid.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Up today: Connecticut and California. West hasn't been reported to be trying on either, and CA is essentially impossible. We'll see if CT comes through, though.

Washington too I believe. Only requires 1000 signatures but I haven't heard of any efforts to collect them there.

[Inmate Trump]

That turncoat Bernie Sanders has moved to Wisconsin and signed Kanye's petition

https://twitter.com/DanielBice/status/1291801914661896199

There are screen shots of a couple other pages of the Wisconsin petitions including Mickey Mouse and Kanye West himself signing it.  Besides that, there are other problems with the submitted pages that will be hard to get enough confirmed as valid.

I haven’t seen much yet about his Wisconsin efforts. Is there actually a lot to suggest his efforts there might not succeed?

[Tender Branson]

Updated map with CO:

Any word if he made it in some of the Green states ?

[DaleCooper]

He seems to have made it in Arkansas and West Virginia. He almost certainly won't in Wisconsin and Illinois, and Ohio could go either way but seems favorable to him. I'm not sure about Missouri. 

[DINGO Joe]

That turncoat Bernie Sanders has moved to Wisconsin and signed Kanye's petition

https://twitter.com/DanielBice/status/1291801914661896199

There are screen shots of a couple other pages of the Wisconsin petitions including Mickey Mouse and Kanye West himself signing it.  Besides that, there are other problems with the submitted pages that will be hard to get enough confirmed as valid.

I haven’t seen much yet about his Wisconsin efforts. Is there actually a lot to suggest his efforts there might not succeed?

The people Kanye paid submitted 2422 signatures, they need 2000 to be valid to be accepted.  There's also the problem that the petition was likely submitted after 5PM which was the deadline and there is a legal history of petitions being rejected even two minutes after the deadline.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Updated map with CO:

Any word if he made it in some of the Green states ?

https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/1291827843069030400?s=19

So it's now this:

[soundchaser]

He's not getting on the ballot in Wisconsin. 100% guaranteed.

[Ferguson97]

Updated map with CO:

Any word if he made it in some of the Green states ?

https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/1291827843069030400?s=19

So it's now this:

What's the key again?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Updated map with CO:

Any word if he made it in some of the Green states ?

https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/1291827843069030400?s=19
So it's now this:

What's the key again?

Red = not on ballot
Blue = on ballot
Green = still pending review
Gray = deadline hasn't passed

[Ferguson97]

So if Kanye doesn’t get on the California ballot he’s below 270 right?

[pppolitics]

Why hasn't anyone done that yet?

https://twitter.com/DanielBice/status/1291827615603535872

[DINGO Joe]

The Hawaii deadline was Wed  and he didn't file there either.  Supposedly his next target is Montana.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I'm reading for a signature to be valid in Wisconsin it must: 1-be from a registered Wisconsin voter and 2-that voter has not voted in a partisan primary for at least a year, including the upcoming 8/11 primary. If a voter votes in that, they retroactively void their signature as they're no longer considered an independent.

If that is true then Kanye's chances in Wisconsin are basically zero.

[The Mikado]

https://twitter.com/ChipMitchell1/status/1291863748114874370

Kanye off ballot in IL.

[Oryxslayer]

https://twitter.com/ChipMitchell1/status/1291863748114874370

Kanye off ballot in IL.

Didn't someone say that on average 60% of signatures are usually struck, so serious campaigns usually   send in a lot more than the minimum? If so, this was predictable, and Wisconsin will likely end up denying him...not just for the reasons explained by other posters.

[DINGO Joe]

Why hasn't anyone done that yet?

https://twitter.com/DanielBice/status/1291827615603535872

https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/1291862698045702145

A really really long challenge with lots of affadavits

[Interlocutor is just not there yet]

Maybe my take will look incredibly shortsighted in retrospect, but Kanye’s campaign is getting hardly any traction as a story. I see it discussed here and nowhere else. It’s hard to see how he makes any difference in the states where he manages to get on the ballot, even in swing states.

This is the only place online I've seen where people care enough to discuss it. If it wasn't for this forum, I'd forget he was running.

But don't let me stop the serious discussion about this serious campaign

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Maybe my take will look incredibly shortsighted in retrospect, but Kanye’s campaign is getting hardly any traction as a story. I see it discussed here and nowhere else. It’s hard to see how he makes any difference in the states where he manages to get on the ballot, even in swing states.

This is the only place online I've seen where people care enough to discuss it. If it wasn't for this forum, I'd forget he was running.

But don't let me stop the serious discussion about this serious campaign

To us it's just a curiosity and we enjoy tracking his ballot access statuses. I don't think anyone here except a few of the usual suspect concern trolls expect him to actually impact the election.