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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 12:35:45 +1300
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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.