Cecilie1200
Diamond Member
Yes, in 1968 in Hawaii and New York. His name was Eldridge Cleaver.and if they omitt Obama their asses will be in big trouble
Has anyone ever been kept off a ballot for president?
He was a Presidential candidate in 1968 on the ticket of the Peace and Freedom Party.[ Cleaver was born on August 31, 1935, and therefore would not have been the requisite 35 years of age until more than a year after Inauguration Day 1969. (Although the Constitution requires that the President be 35 years of age, it does not specify if he must have reached that age at the time of nomination, or election, or inauguration.) Courts in both Hawaii and New York held that he could be excluded from the ballot because he could not possibly meet the Constitutional criteria
Also there was a democratic presidential candidate named Sal Mohamed that was kicked off the state ballots in New Hampshire back in 08 because he was found to not be a natural born citizen according to New Hampshire state election statutes.
I believe there are often scads of third-party candidates who don't make it onto various state ballots. In their case, they're ineligible to appear for lack of petition signatures, but still . . .