Following the Friday, December 15, 5 PM deadline, 12 candidates have qualified to be placed on the ballot in Vermont’s March 5 Presidential Primary, Secretary of State Sarah Copeland-Hanzas said. Six candidates have qualified for the Democratic ballot and six candidates for the Republican ballot.
Among them are former president Donald Trump, despite calls to keep him off the ballot due to the events of January 6, and Dean Phillips, a Minnesota congressman running a Democratic challenge to President Joseph Biden.
The Democratic Party candidates qualifying for placement on the ballot in Vermont are:
Joseph R. Biden Jr
Mark Stewart Greenstein
Jason Michael Palmer
Dean Phillips
Cenk Uygur
Marianne E. Williamson
The Republican Party candidates qualifying for placement on the ballot in Vermont are:
Ryan L. Binkley
Chris Christie
Ron DeSantis
Nikki Haley
Vivek Ramaswamy
Donald J. Trump
Vermont law requires any candidate seeking to have his or her name printed on the ballot of a major party presidential primary to file petitions signed by no fewer than 1,000 registered Vermont voters, along with a $2,000 filing fee.
The Presidential Primary will be held on March 5th, 2024, the same day as Town Meeting Day in Vermont. Voters are reminded that by law they must declare which ballot, Democratic or Republican, they wish to vote when voting in the Presidential Primary, and that choice will be recorded. Presidential Primary ballots are not mailed out to Vermont voters (unlike General Election ballots) but voters may request absentee ballots through the My Voter Page at mvp.vermont.gov or by contacting their town or city clerk. Please visit this link for a list of clerks https://sos.vermont.gov/elections/town-clerks/
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Presidential Primary ballots are not mailed out to Vermont voters unlike General Election ballots.
Personally if Vermont doesn’t feel it’s necessary to mail out Primary ballots (which I whole heartedly agree) they shouldn’t be mailed out at the General election either. If people can ask for an absentee ballot for the Primary, they can do the same for the General election.
SO, . . . . . . why don’t they do it the same way ? Great question, it certainly would be cheaper. There is only one conclusion you can arrive at for the difference. Even the NYT published an article a number of years ago saying, “mailed in ballots would make cheating easier”. So what has changed ? Absolutely Nothing !
The democrat and republican parties are PRIVATE corporations. Not one public dollar should be spent on these primaries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/us/politics/as-more-vote-by-mail-faulty-ballots-could-impact-elections.html
Here you go. The difference is then mailed ballots were dangerous to the left because they were mainly elderly people and mikitary serving abroad (largely conservative). Now it’s mainly lefties so it’s the most “safe and secure” method, which undoubtedly couldn’t be further from the truth.
When the ballots go out, is the Sec of State going to put Trump at the bottom of the ballots, in small print, with Biden on the top, in bold print, like last time?
This is called gaming the election process, and is illegal, and I am sure it would be so ruled, if challenged, and ruled, by the Supreme Court, in Washington.
The last Sec of State made these changes ,took Zuckerbucks ,brought in Dominion Voter machines, into towns that did not want them, then bailed out from his position, after forcing these changes on all towns in VT.
Kind of reminds me of when the head of the lotto commission, way back when, wanted to bring in a company being investigated for ties to organized crime, in another state, to be the vendor, running the proposed Tri-State lottery ,at the time, and as soon as he got that vendor in, he resigned, and retired to the Bahamas…hmmm.
Move along…nothing to see here…but we are watching your every move.
#1, what you described did not happen, #2 If you mean alphabetical order, yes that’s how ballots work. Nothing to see here
It did happen…100% and as a Vermonter based overseas for a long time and always voted absentee it was always the main candidates parties first followed by the minor parties but the last election cycle they changed it to Alphabetical order ,and it just so happened that Biden was number one, and Trump second to last. This is no chance,it is gaming the election process.When you accuse me of telling lies Chris please print your full and real name ,like I do, otherwise no one will believe you.
Vermont GOP, better get on board you can list 100 candidates, and the top contender is ” Donald J Trump “You don’t have to like him he’s crude, rude, and sarcastic, so what …………..oh well.
He will save the country from cancer known as liberal democRATs with its open borders, debt, and the economy in the tank, …yeah, I’ll take sarcastic any time.
You’re right. The guy’s from NYC, so he’s also tenacious, bold, brutally honest, and accomplishes what needs to be done fast.
Americans behave as though his behavior shocks their highly tender psyches, meanwhile these Americans are chauffeuring their kids to ghoulish drag queen story hours, murdering their own babies in utero, and believing that men can become women.
Yeah, Trump is far too “offensive”, riiiiight…….
I’m trying to decide between Trump and democrat Cenk Uygur – who isn’t even legally qualified to be POTUS as he’s foreign-born. But in VT, the US Constitution is merely folly.
Hey! I just decided….Trump!
warped speed for the jax should have halted when found to be deadly///your entire government are guilty of mass murder//// high treason/////
correction vax vax