Nine Presidential Candidates Submit Petitions in New Jersey

July 29 is the New Jersey petition deadline for independent presidential candidates and the presidential candidates of unqualified parties.  Nine presidential candidates submitted petitions:  independents Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Shiva Ayyadurai; and the nominees of the Libertarian, Green, Constitution, American Solidarity, Socialism & Liberation, Socialist Workers Parties, and Socialist Equality Parties.

Shiva Ayyadurai was born in India and a news story says that the Secretary of State will need to decide whether to print his name on the ballot.  The story did not mention that New Jersey has an unbroken tradition of putting ineligible presidential candidates on the November ballot.  They include the Socialist Workers Party presidential candidates in 1972, 2004, and 2008 (Linda Jeness and Roger Calero); the Prohibition Party vice-presidential nominee in 1892 (James Cranfill); the Workers World Party candidate in 1988 (Larry Holmes); and the 2008 vice-presidential nominee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (Eugene Puryear).

Ayyadurai’s ballot label is “Dr. Shiva.”  This post has been updated to include the Socialist Equality Party nominee.

 


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Nine Presidential Candidates Submit Petitions in New Jersey — 12 Comments

  1. Not to mention Chester Arthur (R), Barack Obama (D), John McCain (R), Kamala Harris (D), and Heaven knows how many other non natural born citizens the uniparty has put on the ballot in New Jersey.

    Here is what Dr Ayyadurai himself has to say on the matter:

    “Article 2 Section 1 of the Constitution referred to ‘native born’ requirement for being President. However, ‘native born’ was never defined. In fact the Maryland Legislature voted to make Marquis De Lafayette and his family native born US Citizens.

    Regardless, the Constitution is not a fixed document. It changes with things called Amendments. The 5th and 14th Amendments combined with many Supreme Court rulings made it explicitly clear that it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL to discriminate between a Native Born and Naturalized Citizen.

    Therefore, it is Unconstitutional to NOT allow DR.SHIVA to run and moreover to become President. This would violate those two Amendments, which abrogated/repealed Article 2 Section 1.

    Finally, in 2011, the FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION (FEC) ruled a Naturalized citizen can run for President and raise monies privately but just could not receive matching funds.

    This is clear as day, he can run and be President.

    If any of the States challenge him, we will take this all the way to the Supreme Court.”

    Naturally, I believe he is incorrect, but since the constitution is systematically ignored for uniparty candidates, the same should apply to independent and third party candidates.

  2. NATURAL BORN USA CITIZEN = FATHER IS A USA CITIZEN [NATURAL BORN OR NATURALIZED] THE SECOND HIS KID IS BORN

    PLACE OF BIRTH MEANS ZERO.

    —-
    IE NOT TO HAVE USA PREZ/CIC HAVE ANY POSSIBLE FOREIGN POLITICAL CONNECTIONS.

    OLDE TIME MONARCHS IN EUROPE CLAIMED ANY BODY IN A FOREIGN REGIME HAVING SOME CONNECTION TO SUCH MONARCH WAS SUBJECT TO THE MONARCH’S ORDERS/COMMANDS.

    SAME FOR VP — LAST SENTENCE OF 12 AMDT


    SEE LAST PARA OF 4 JULY 1776 — ALLEGIANCE STUFF

  3. I disagree. Natural Born citizen meant one born in the USA to American citizen parents.

  4. SEE OLDE BRIT ALLEGIANCE / NATURAL BORN / NATURALIZATION — CASES AND LAWS.

    ALSO EARLY REAL ESTATE CASES — USA – BRIT PEACE TREATY —

    EARLY ON — ONLY BRIT SUBJECTS / USA-STATE CITIZENS COULD OWN REAL ESTATE — ALLEGIANCE STUFF.

  5. “we will take this all the way to the Supreme Court.” – Hope so. It’s about time that Vattel’s ‘Law of Nations’ gets entered into the court record.

  6. The case is moot unless an elector actually votes for him. The Presidential election is done by the electors. Ordinary voters merely choose the electors. If Shiva’s electors are all eligible, they may all run.

  7. Was Cranfill’s name on the 1892 ballot in New Jersey, and if so wasn’t it just decorative?

  8. JOHN MCCAIN III was born out of wedlock in the Republic of Panama to US Citizens. His parents thought they got married in a bar in TJ, Baja California. Yo get married in Baja California one had to conduct it at the office of Civil Registry. That never happened so the parents of John McCain III WERE NEVER LAWFULLY MARRIED
    .

  9. Under the 1890 Australian ballot law in New Jersey, parties were *permitted* to have the name of their Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates on the ballot. It was decorative, similar to three-word slogan. A separate ballot was printed for each party. A voter would select one, and could edit it by crossing-out or erasing names and writing in an alternative (either to vote a split ticket, or vote a true write-in). Stickers could also be used.

    Did the Prohibition Party supply the names of John Bidwell and James Cranfill in New Jersey? No voter voted for either of these two persons.

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