Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday that his campaign has sufficient signatures to get on the ballot in 42 states — enough to potentially win 480 electoral college votes.
The Kennedy-Shanahan campaign needed to collect about 1 million signatures nationally to qualify.
“The draconian and Byzantine rules that govern ballot access in the 50 states were written by the Democrat or Republican party to prevent competition to make it insurmountable for an independent candidate for the presidency to ever get their name on the ballot in all 50 states,” Kennedy said in a briefing on his campaign’s ballot access status. “Like many of the other things that people have predicted about us during this campaign, we have been able to overcome impossible odds."
The Kennedy-Shanahan campaign said Wednesday it had secured the signatures it needs to get on the ballot in Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Massachusetts, Montana, North Dakota, Vermont and Virginia. Two days ago, the campaign announced it had enough signatures to get on the ballot in Connecticut, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Missouri, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
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