EXCLUSIVE: Evan McMullin Makes Utah Ballot for President, Say Local Reportshttp://heatst.com/politics/exclusive-evan-mcmullin-makes-utah-ballot-for-president-say-local-reports/By Louise Mensch | 12:40 pm, August 15, 2016
Breaking: According to social media, Evan McMullin has gathered the 1,000 signatures needed to place him on the ballot in his home state of Utah.
Local election supervisors are quoted as saying that McMullin already has the signatures he needs to place him on Utah’s ballot. The deadline is today.
A Mormon who attended BYU and acted as a missionary, the former CIA agent could easily win the state as an Independent with Republican leanings if he wins the support of Governor Mitt Romney, the GOP’s former nominee.
Unlike Gary Johnson, previously favored in the normally deep-red state, Evan McMullin is a conservative with a pro-life position.
Winning Utah could conceivably leave McMullin with a shot at the White House, if no candidate won an overall majority and the current House decided to pick a compromise for President.
Local users using twitter hashtag #utpol seemed to agree that McMullin would comfortably make the ballot. If you start with the Obama-Romney result and take Utah out of Trump’s column, he’d have to win not only Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, but also take Virginia (Tim Kaine’s state) to win – or another state like Colorado in which Trump is not even competitive.