Kennedy Set To Make November Ballot Here In New York

From Kennedy24.com.

@RobertKennedyJr on X.

Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign announced on Tuesday that it turned in three times the necessary signatures to make the ballot in New York, the state his father represented in the Senate, and where he spent 40 years as an environmental attorney.

On the final day of the petitioning, the campaign turned in 135,519 signatures, a record for a presidential candidate in New York.

Volunteers carried 70 volumes of signatures into the New York State Board of Elections office in Albany.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted this statement on X (@RobertKennedyJr): “Even though the state of New York stacked the deck against us, we successfully collected and turned in 135,519 signatures today, three times the required amount to gain ballot access in the Empire State.”

The Kennedy campaign described the process as such in the press release accompanying the news: “New York utilizes the following stringent rules: a byzantine set of rules for the final processed documents; congressional district requirements for signatures that must be proven to be met before submission; requiring manual validation of all signatures; confusing tests of residency, forcing signers to put downtowns as opposed to the postally accepted hamlets; one of the shortest petitioning windows in the nation allowing only six weeks for collection; and one of the highest number of signatures required in the nation.

“In spite of this, the Kennedy campaign has made history in the state that once elected Robert F. Kennedy as their U.S. Senator and where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. began his environmental career by spearheading the project to clean up the Hudson River from corporate polluters. In spite of this, the Kennedy campaign has made history in the state that once elected Robert F. Kennedy as their U.S. Senator and where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. began his environmental career by spearheading the project to clean up the Hudson River from corporate polluters.”

New York is now the ninth state that the Kennedy-Shanahan ticket has now collected enough signatures for ballot access in, along with New York, New Hampshire, Nevada, North Carolina, Idaho, Nebraska, Iowa, and Ohio. It has officially made the ballot in seven states - Utah, Michigan, California, Delaware, Oklahoma, Hawaii, and Texas. 

That means the Kennedy-Shanahan campaign has collected the signatures needed for ballot access in 16 states totaling 229 electoral votes - 43 percent of the 538 total electoral votes nationwide. 

This is significant because, in order to make the debate stage with Presidents Biden and Trump in late June, Kennedy will need to have states comprising 270 votes, what you need to win the election.

“Getting ‘Bobby on the Ballot’ in my home state is one of the greatest achievements of my life,” said New York volunteer Tammi Palmeri. “I understand what’s at stake for our country and I’m grateful there’s a candidate I can believe in.”