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Originally Posted by Guest
Nope, not too late. Many states have filing deadlines in Aug. All a third party needs to do is register in enough states that they can win to keep both Hillary and Trump from gaining enough electoral votes to win the election. Texas would probably be enough in itself, but several other states could do it. It does not take registering in ALL states in order to throw a monkey wrench into the election process. It takes 270 of the 538 electoral votes to win. If say Perry ran in Texas and Maybe Bernie ran in California and each won that state, there would be no winner in the election.
Romney and the establishment are attempting to organize this threat. If they do, then whoever owns congress gets to decide on who the next president will be.
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According to this newsource:"It's too late to get an independent presidential candidate on the ballot in all 50 states — Texas' deadline passed last Monday....
Rick Wilson, a longtime Republican political consultant who has spent months waging war on Trump's candidacy, has been thinking differently about this problem.
The theory — and it's a wild one — is this: An independent presidential candidate doesn't need to be on the ballot in all 50 states (though ballot access can be resolved in other ways, including court action), Wilson says.
Silicon Valley Republicans say 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's name has been mentioned — possibly on a ticket with Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. But people with ties to Romney dismiss that out of hand.
"Mitt has a solid legacy now. The last thing he would do is tarnish it with some weird Hail Mary thing," said one person familiar with the matter.
And Cruz told reporters he has "no interest" in a third-party bid.
The candidate merely has to win a handful of states to deny either Trump or Clinton the requisite 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency, said Wilson. If that happens, the House of Representatives would choose the next president — potentially the player-to-be-named-later."
Silicon Valley Republicans ask: What if there were a third-party candidate? - Recode