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Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will appear on the presidential ballot in Utah after formally filing with the state’s elections office on Wednesday, his campaign’s first step in an uphill battle to appear on the ballot in every state as part of his longshot White House bid.Utah is the first state the Kennedy campaign has successfully filed to put his name on the ballot and has been a central focus of the campaign in recent weeks as it fleshes out its strategy to put Kennedy on the ballot in all 50 states and Washington, DC. The campaign’s audacious ballot access goal matches its optimism that Kennedy can make history as the only independent presidential candidate to win an election since the Democratic and Republican parties were founded. ... Kennedy lamented the application barriers for independent candidates in various states, pointing to specific ballot access provisions in West Virginia and Massachusetts and large signature gathering thresholds in states like California, New York and Texas, which he said are “deliberately burdensome” to prevent independent candidates from getting on the ballot.“Some of the states have rules that are – it’s negotiating this labyrinth of these arcane rules that we now have in every state that are all designed to suppress dissent, to make sure that there are no options for Americans outside of the major political parties,” Kennedy said. ...During his remarks, Kennedy accused state officials in three states – Maine, New Hampshire and North Dakota – of refusing to send the campaign ballot petitions, suggesting officials in those states may be demonstrating bias towards major party candidates, but said his campaign would overcome any mix-up with officials in those states. ...
