If independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Junior wanted to collect more than 83,000 signatures from the voters registered in the state by 5 March, if he wanted to go on November 5 voting in North Carolina as an unaffected candidate.
Instead of looking for a ballot access as a person, he now expects to be associated with a political party and landed on the state ballot. A political party can collect only 13,865 signatures from registered and qualified voters and get ballot access. This number, as placed in the state law, is equal to 0.25% of the total number of voters who voted in the most recent general election for voters. The petition should be signed by at least 200 registered voters from each of the three Congress districts in Northern Carolina.
This year, V the People Party, formed by Kennedy supporters, presented a petition request form to the State Board of Election. It is currently one of dozens of petitions on progress, including himself for Kennedy. The party has to submit its signature till 1 June, which will later be verified by the county election officials.
Stephanie Spear, the press secretary of Kennedy’s campaign, told Wral in an email, “Once the party is used by the party, he will nominate Mr. Kennedy as his candidate and he will officially be on the ballot in North Carolina.” “The party will submit all its signatures at the end of the petition process.”
Kennedy received 8% support in a survey of 1,099 registered voters released by Fox News this week. Republican Front-Runner Donald Trump increased the President Joe Biden from 46% to 37% in the poll, including a potential Green Party candidate Jill Stein (2%) and independent candidates Cornell West (1%). Trump increased Biden from 50% to 45% in a head-to-head match in a single pole.
In Northern Carolina, Trump led Biden to five points-44% -TO-39%-recently led a survey conducted by political scientists at Meredith College.
Former President Trump won North Carolina in 2016 and 2020. In 2020, he defeated Biden by less than 75,000 votes. Candidates from Liberterian, Green and Constitution parties appeared in 2022 on the presidential voting of North Carolina.
The Kennedy Abhiyan says that Kennedy has already gained access to ballot papers in Utah and New Hampshire.
So far, the winners of the President’s primary at the Democratic, Republican and Libeterian parties will appear on the Northern Carolina ballot in November. But other parties can still get ballot access through the petition process. The Green Party did this in 2022.
Apart from us, the Northern Carolina Forward Party, the American Political Party, The Veterans Party of North Carolina and the American platform party have submitted a petition request form for 2024.
Northern Carolina’s Veterans Party has presented 223 valid signatures. No other party has submitted valid signatures.
The initial polling for the primary of March 5 in Northern Carolina began on Thursday.