RFK Jr. has necessary signatures to get on NC ballot, campaign says
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. needs more than 13,000 signatures to get his "We The People" party on the November ballot in North Carolina. His campaign said Monday it has collected nearly double that amount. Officials need to validate them before they're official.
Posted — UpdatedPresidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has collected more than enough signatures to be on North Carolina's November ballot, his campaign said Monday.
The signatures have to be validated by elections officials before they become official. If validated, North Carolina would be the largest state that Kennedy has gained access. Kennedy is already on the ballot in Utah and has collected the needed signatures in New Hampshire, Nevada and Hawaii.
An individual candidate must collect more than 83,000 signatures to be on the ballot in North Carolina. But a party has a much lower threshold — 0.25% of the total number of voters who voted in the most recent general election for governor, which would be 13,865 — to place a nominee on state ballots. All the signatures must be from registered voters and at least 200 must come from at least three separate congressional districts in the state.
"Once the party has ballot access, they will nominate Mr. Kennedy as their candidate and he will officially be on the ballot in North Carolina," Stefanie Spear, Kennedy's campaign press secretary, told WRAL in an email in February.
Nominees from the Green Party, No Labels Party and Constitution Party are expected to be on the November ballot as well.
Trump carried the state in each of his two previous presidential runs. He defeated Biden by 1.34% of the vote in 2020, or less than 75,000 votes. Neither candidate got 50% of the vote with various third-party candidates and write-in candidates collecting nearly 2%.
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