Since President Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race — and with Vice President Kamala Harris likely to replace him as the nominee — there’s been a lot of misinformation about how she’ll get on the ballot.
Indiana law governs how major party presidential nominees get on Indiana’s general election ballot.
It doesn’t matter that Harris wasn’t on Indiana’s primary election ballot for president. Primary results really only matter to a presidential candidate for the purposes of winning delegates for their national party conventions.
With Biden withdrawing from the race, Indiana’s Democratic delegates are unbound and free to vote for whomever they choose — and they’ve all declared for Harris.
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Indiana law says getting major party presidential candidates on the general election ballot simply requires the state party chair to certify to the election division the names of the nominees for president and vice president, as chosen by the national party convention delegates.
The party chair this year must do so by Sept. 10.
This article was written by Indiana Public Broadcasting Statehouse bureau chief Brandon Smith.
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