VOTING FOR PRESIDENT

 No, I'm not going to tell you for whom you should vote -  not today, anyway.  Today, I'll tell you for whom you can vote.  Interested?  

By now, every state is settled upon whom will be on the ballot.  Yes, every state can be different.  The states control the voting.  The Feds and the parties can talk about it but it is up to the states individually.

Besides the Republican and Democrat candidates, the Libertarian Party and the Green Party have a candidate on all or many state ballots and are real "Third Party" candidates.  There are other candidates with a party affiliation and there are independent candidates.  In most of the states, it takes a petition with some minimum number of voter's signatures to get on the ballot.  If not there, most states allow write in candidates.

Here's the scoop.  

The Libertarian Party had a convention and some primaries and selected Jo Jorgensen to run for president and Spike Cohen to be her running mate.  They beat out a dozen other candidates and are on the ballot in all states.

The Green Party had a convention and some primaries and selected Howie Hawkins to run for president and Angela Walker to be his running mate.  They beat out five other candidates and are on the ballot in 29 states and on the write-in ballots in 17 other states.  They have access to enough electoral votes to win the election.

The following candidates are not on sufficient ballots to win enough electoral votes to win but could if they receive enough write-in votes in other states.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation has named Gloria La Riva as presidential candidate and Sunil Freeman as her running mate.  They are on the ballot in Florida and California but not Ohio.

The Alliance Party has named Rocky De La Fuente and Darcy Richardson as their candidates.  They are on the ballot in 16 states including Florida and California but not Ohio.

The Constitution Party has named Don Blankenship and William Mohr as their candidates.  They are on the ballot in 18 states including Florida but not California or Ohio.  

This may be getting boring so I'll give the rest all together with the number of states in parentheses.

Independent:  Brock Pierce and Karla Ballard (15);  Birthday Party:  Kanye West and Michelle Tidball (12);  American Solidarity Party:  Brian Carroll and Amar Patel (8);  Socialist Workers Party:  Alyson Kennedy and Malcolm Jarrett (6);  Unity Party:  Bill Hammons and Eric Bodenstab (3);  Prohibition Party:  Phil Collins and Billy Joe Parker (4);  Progressive Party:  Dario Hunter and Dawn Neptune Adams (2);  Independent:  Jade Simmons and Claudeliah Roze (2);  Independent:  Joe McHugh and Elizabeth Storm (1);  Bread and Roses ticket:  Jerome Segal and John de Graaf (2);  Approval Voting Party:  Blake Huber and Frank Atwood (2);  Independent:  Kyle Kenley Kopitke and Nathan Re Vo Sorensen (2).

I stopped there not because the list is finished but because I am tired.  There are sixteen sets of candidates who are on the ballot of only one state.  Some of them are very interesting but not really worth my time.  I hope this has given you a glance into the full gamut of what presidential voting encompasses.  

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