Tracking Ron Paul ballot access for each state

[dskalkowski]

Can we have this stickied? Very important this stays updated.

 

[helmuth_hubener]

How does that work?

It's kind of complicated. You can see the Wyoming sub-forum for details.

There's two meetings at a local place, the library for my county. The first is the precinct caucuses. This year, that will happen between Feb. 9th and 29th; it's up to each county to schedule it. There, delegates are selected to the county convention (which for most precincts will just be everyone present who wants to go), which will be held in March. There, all the precinct delegates choose a delegate to go to National in Tampa. Directly. No more layers. So that's pretty awesome, actually, for a small but motivated cadre like us RP people. They also vote on other stuff. Some additional delegates to National are also chosen at the State Convention.

The delegates are all unbound (they can vote for anyone at National), and do not even have to declare a Presidential preference at all if they don't feel like it. There will be a non-binding Presidential Preference poll at the precinct caucuses in February. It remains to be seen in what way the MSM will butcher and over-simplify the Wyoming process in their reporting (if they report it at all), but my guess is that whoever wins the preference polls of the most counties will be declared the "winner" of Wyoming in February and that will be that. actually, rethinking that, my guess is they will ignore Wyoming altogether since our precinct caucuses will not all happen on the same day, and that is just too complex for the MSM to deal with. But what really determines who Wyoming's delegates will go for at National is the County Conventions and the State Convention.

For the purposes of this thread, take away this: there are no requirements whatsoever for any Presidential candidate. Louis L'Amour could win it all; it's totally open-ended; no hurdles nor signatures nor registration nor anything

 

[GunnyFreedom]

http://ohioforronpaul.com/

Ohio says they are golden, but we may have to wait until Dec 30th to list as filed for ballot access.

 

[Adrock]

Bump for Importance

 

[tsai3904]

DC requires a $5,000 filing fee and 296 signatures by January 4. Ron Paul has paid the filing fee but hasn't submitted the signatures yet.

Delaware requires 500 signatures by February 24.

We're on the ballot in these states:

Alabama
Idaho

 

[tsai3904]

Rhode Island requires 1,000 signatures by February 2.

 

[kylejack]

I don't believe Ohio is locked in yet. It's just that because of the donations he is eligible to bypass the signatures or something. Doesn't mean he has filed yet, unless we have confirmation?

 

[eduardo89]

DC requires a $5,000 filing fee and 296 signatures by January 4. Ron Paul has paid the filing fee but hasn't submitted the signatures yet.

Delaware requires 500 signatures by February 24.

We're on the ballot in these states:

Alabama
Idaho

The should be easy. Don't know why it hasn't been done yet.

Rhode Island requires 1,000 signatures by February 2.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

I don't believe Ohio is locked in yet. It's just that because of the donations he is eligible to bypass the signatures or something. Doesn't mean he has filed yet, unless we have confirmation?

As I understand it, he can't file under the grassroots donor signature exemption until Dec 30th. So no, the filing is not complete in Ohio, and will not be for another week at least. However, we meet the signature exemption requirement, so there is no reason to worry about Ohio. We're golden there, we just can't file until Dec 30th.

 

[kylejack]

Ah, okay. Perhaps the OP can list situations such as that as Tentative or Pending, then? Would be nice to have a full picture.

 

[kylejack]

Also, does the campaign need anything? I hope they're putting out the call to their million-man army. I'm assuming they're just paying professional signature collectors to get the signatures?

 

[tsai3904]

I hope they're putting out the call to their million-man army.

The campaign is not letting the grassroots know about these situations. In Tennessee, we have one Congressional District where zero supporters (out of three) filed to be delegates because they didn't gather enough signatures and no one here knew about the situation until afterwards.

 

[John F Kennedy III]

Updated.

 

[John F Kennedy III]

The campaign is not letting the grassroots know about these situations. In Tennessee, we have one Congressional District where zero supporters (out of three) filed to be delegates because they didn't gather enough signatures and no one here knew about the situation until afterwards.

We need to get the campaign to let us know about these situations.

 

[kylejack]

The campaign is not letting the grassroots know about these situations. In Tennessee, we have one Congressional District where zero supporters (out of three) filed to be delegates because they didn't gather enough signatures and no one here knew about the situation until afterwards.

Absurd. Shouldn't the state coordinator be letting people know about that? Here in Texas a lady named Jean McIver had previously sent state-specific information, such as the 2008 straw poll information. There's a bunch of people that would be happy to get out there and collect signatures or become a precinct chair. We just need the information.

 

[tsai3904]

Yea, they need to keep us informed but they are not.

Look at this post someone made today:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?341954-NEED-Help-to-get-Delegates-on-ballot-for-14th-CD

They still need signatures in CD 14 in IL. Who knows if they still need signatures in other CDs. No one is keeping us up to date on the statuses of these situations.

 

[McDermit]

PA - 2000 sigs (we aim for 10k) Petitioning begins January 24th and filing deadline is Feb 14th.
Source: http://www.portal.state.pa.us/porta...teway/PTARGS_0_160329_1206986_0_0_18/2012.pdf

Delegates have to collect 250 sigs within the same timeframe.

Petition/candidate packet request forms will eventually be available here: http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/information/12709

PA is kind of a "don't worry about it, we got this!" state. Our grassroots is on top of things. The redistricting messed up some plans and changed the way we need to choose delegates, but we've pretty much got it figured out.

 

[Working Poor]

Get on this

 

[tsai3904]

I'm worried about Maryland delegates.

The deadline to file is January 11 and it doesn't appear that we have enough, although I am not 100% sure.

Here is a current list of people who have filed as delegates:
http://www.elections.state.md.us/el...andidates/statecandidateslist.aspx?office=056

It does not state who each is supporting but if you look at CD 4, only two people have filed. Even if both are supporting Ron Paul, we'd still be one short in that CD because each CD gets three delegates.

Here are alternate delegates:
http://www.elections.state.md.us/el...andidates/statecandidateslist.aspx?office=057

I hope the campaign is on this and doesn't drop the ball like it did in TN.

 

[RSLudlum]

He has ballot access in South Carolina:
"Ten candidates have filed to compete in the South Carolina Republican primary: Johnson (May 2), Cain, Paul, Pawlenty and Santorum (May 3), Huntsman (June 22), Romney (Sept. 30 +), Perry (Oct. 27), Gingrich (Oct. 28) and Bachmann (Oct. 28 +); Pawlenty has since withdrawn and does not want to appear on the ballot. (Roemer had filed on April 29 but put a stop payment on his check when it became clear he would not be invited to participate in the May 5 debate). To participate in the Republican primary, candidates were required to pay $25,000 before May 3, 2011 or $35,000 from May 4 to the filing deadline on November 1, 2011 at 5:00 p.m."