August 01, 2024
The Denver Post reports:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has qualified for Colorado’s presidential ballot as an unaffiliated candidate, state election officials said Thursday.
Kennedy supporters last month turned in a sufficient number signatures to cement the independent candidate’s place on the November ballot, the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office said. The campaign needed 12,000 valid signatures to earn a place on the ballot, and it submitted just under 30,000. More than 21,700 were determined to be valid.
Kennedy has collected signatures to appear on the ballot in 42 states, his campaign said in a press call Wednesday.
Kennedy has pursued a variety of strategies to achieve ballot access across the country, from gathering signatures to partnering with smaller parties to forming new ones entirely.
His pursuit of an unaffiliated spot in Colorado comes as state Libertarians say they’ll still work to list him as their candidate — despite the national party already placing its ticket on the state’s ballot. Hannah Goodman, the state party chair, told The Denver Post in a text earlier this week that the local party will nominate Kennedy at an Aug. 12 meeting and will then file the paperwork needed to put him on the ballot again.
On Wednesday’s press call, Kennedy’s campaign manager, Amaryllis Kennedy, said the campaign was “very interested” in appearing on the ballot twice.
“If we’re able to put RFK’s name on the ballot with both independent and the Libertarian Party of Colorado, we’ll be very proud to do so,” Amaryllis Kennedy said. “We’ll have an answer to you as soon as we know the answer to that ourselves, and when Colorado’s secretary of state knows the answer to that.”
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