Category Archives: Presidential Campaign

RENO, Nev. (KOLO) - In case you are not satisfied with Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton heading into November, there are other options in Nevada.
On the Nevada state ballot, there will be six choices for President, five of whom are candidates and the other is the state’s popular “none of these candidates” option.
“I don’t know that it would change the outcome of the race overall, but some people feel that it’s important to have that option to make a statement,” Washoe County Registrar Luanne Cutler said.

Independent presidential candidate Rocky De La Fuente collected enough valid signatures to be on the Washington ballot, but he was kept off because his campaign didn’t file a notice in a newspaper a week before the petition drive started. The newspaper requirement is a hangover from the days when Washington ballot access was not based […]

CALDWELL — The general election is just over a month away. Besides electing the next president of the United States, voters have many choices to make at the local and state level. Up for election this year are a number of state senators and representatives and Canyon County sheriff. Voters will also decide whether to […]

On Thursday, a federal judge in Huntington, West Virginia granted an emergency motion filed by Naomi Spencer, Socialist Equality Party candidate for House of Delegates District 16, to halt the Secretary of State’s exclusion of independent candidates from the ballots statewide. In his ruling, Judge Robert C. Chambers issued a preliminary injunction against Secretary of […]

WASHINGTON — Independent presidential candidate Rocky de la Fuente has sued the Texas secretary of state in a last-ditch bid to get his name on the state’s ballot. De la Fuente, a California businessman who previously ran in the Democratic presidential primary, filed a preliminary injunction request in U.S. District Court in Austin on Sept. […]

“Rocky” Roque De La Fuente will defend the constitutional rights of US citizens to secure electoral reform in the State of Virginia tomorrow, September 23, 2016, when he presents his case against the Virginia Board of Electors at the Alexandria Courthouse. Alexandria, VA, September 22, 2016 -(PR.com)- It’s of no surprise that “Rocky” Roque De […]

On September 14, U.S. District Court John Jones issued a ruling in De La Fuente v Cortes, m.d., 1:16cv-1696. The issue is whether Rocky De La Fuente can be on the Pennsylvania ballot as an independent candidate for President. The order says the issue belongs in state court. So, on September 16, De La Fuente […]

A Georgia state court will hear De La Fuente v Kemp, Fulton County Superior Court 2016-cv-279793, on Monday, September 26. The issue is the validity of De La Fuente’s independent presidential petition. He submitted 14,500 signatures, and 7,500 were needed. The state said only 2,964 of his signatures are valid. De La Fuente says that […]

By Frank Vernuccio Originally posted in the New York Analysis of Policy & Government newsletter The first debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will take place on Monday, September 26, at Hofstra University in the suburban community of Hempstead, New York. Two third party candidates, including Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party and Jill […]

JACKSON, Miss. (WTOK) - The State Board of Election Commissioners Thursday certified seven candidates for the Nov. 8 ballot in Mississippi. Statutory members of the State Board include Gov. Phil Bryant, Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, and Attorney General Jim Hood. Certified U.S. presidential candidates include: • Hillary Clinton, Democratic Party; • Donald J. Trump, […]