ALBANY, NY—AUG. 5, 2024—Independent Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will testify this week at the Albany County Supreme Court where campaign attorneys expect to prove that 1) Kennedy has had a residence in New York for decades; 2) that any attempt by New York to restrict candidates beyond the U.S. Constitutional standard of residence being the state to which you intend to return would be unconstitutional; and 3) that the nominating petition cannot be struck because Kennedy, relying on advice of counsel, in good faith listed his New York residence on his nominating petitions.

The Kennedy campaign is mounting the strongest independent challenge to the corporate-funded parties in more than 30 years. On June 10, certain objectors commenced a special proceeding in New York State Supreme Court which was subsequently transferred to Albany County. This challenge falsely alleges Mr. Kennedy does not have a residence in New York.

“The home at 84 Croton Lake Road in Katonah, New York, is Mr. Kennedy’s official address,” said William F. Savino of Woods Oviatt Gilman, lead trial attorney for the defense of Kennedy’s nominating petition at the trail from August 5-9. “He receives mail there. His driver's license and automobile are registered there. His voting registration, and fishing, and falconry licenses are from New York. His law office is in New York. He pays taxes to New York State. New York has been his residence continuously since 1964, and Mr. Kennedy has deep ties to it. He even keeps his beloved falcons in New York State. He has never claimed any other state as a residency. He intends to move back to New York as soon as his wife retires from acting.”

If he were to use an address in California — a state in which he is not registered to vote, licensed to drive, or licensed to practice law — on a ballot petition, the petition would be rendered invalid. The 12th Amendment guarantees all American adults of sufficient age the right to run for President, even if their work requires them to spend time in a different state from the state in which they are registered to vote and to which they intend to return.

As the campaign has racked up ballot access victories and submitted two, three, and even four times the number of signatures required to qualify in each state, the DNC has poured millions into a lawfare campaign against Kennedy’s ballot access and resorted to frivolous and often comical legal efforts to keep Americans from voting for the Kennedy-Shanahan ticket this fall. 

The campaign has a perfect record of winning ballot access challenges, including in Hawaii, Idaho, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Utah. The campaign has defeated every ballot access legal challenge made against it across the country. 

The Kennedy-Shanahan campaign has collected more signatures than any presidential candidate in American history, collecting more than 1 million signatures. It has already collected signatures needed for ballot access in 42 states, totaling 480 electoral votes, 89% of the 538 total electoral votes nationwide.

The Kennedy-Shanahan ticket is officially on the ballot in 13 states — California, Delaware, Hawaii, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, Alaska, Indiana, and Nebraska.

The campaign has submitted its signatures in 19 states — Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, and West Virginia.

It has collected enough signatures for ballot access in 10 states — Florida, New Hampshire, Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Massachusetts, Montana, North Dakota, Vermont, and Virginia.

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