• someguy3@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Technically afaik the election institutions don’t care about parties, they care about the individual running. Remember the whole system was set up with the idea/hope that parties don’t exist.

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      5 months ago

      Well that was then. Presently if you’re not the nominee from a party which received a minimum threshold of votes in the preceding election you have to get a bunch of signatures from the voters to be put on the ballot. So since the Democratic party has.met the threshold of votes in prior elections in all states their nominee will be on the ballots but they haven’t nominated anyone yet.

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        5 months ago

        Sounds like the legal mechanism is that you need a certain threshold of support to be put on the ballot, but they carved out niche to just accept the nominee from the 2 parties with the understanding they would obviously meet the threshold of support.

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          Right. So they can’t have already started printing out ballots before the Democratic party has actually nominated their candidate.