Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

On 28/10/24 10:49, Chris Buckley wrote:
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As far as ease for getting your name on the presidential ballot, let's
look at New York.  It requires 45,000 valid signatures, including 500
from each of at least one-half of the congressional districts.  This
year the signatures were due by May 28, before many parties even knew
their nominees! The two major parties, of course, are exempt from this
requirement since they have already proved their "legitimacy".
 
It cost many millions of dollars total to get on the ballot for most
of the states.  Kennedy's PAC last year was targeting spending 10-15
million for 10 of the harder states.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-ballot-access/

Knowing little about the electoral processes in the USA, I was
gobsmacked to read your post and the beginning of that article.
Initially I thought that might partly explain why from about 320,000,000
possibilities you get such trash as Trump, Biden and Harris.
And Obama, Clinton, Bush, etc but then I realised this pot from Aotearoa
 was calling your kettle black as with no such monetary obstruction, we
don't do much better with only 5,000,000 to select from.