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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