How long do Democrats have to get a presidential candidate on Kansas ballots?
There will be a new president in 2025 after President Joe Biden announced he will not seek reelection. Biden, along with others, endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democratic nominee ahead of the Democratic National Convention in August.
It’s not set in stone that Harris will be the nominee, as delegates from Kansas and the rest of the country will make their choice official at the convention from Aug. 19 to 22 in Chicago.
Kansas voters will then have a few months to prepare for the November election between the final Democratic nominee and former President Donald Trump, who was nominated at the Republican National Convention in July.
The state waits to finalize the names that appear on the general election ballot after Republicans and Democrats hold their national conventions.
Have any ballots been printed?
This differs between states, but no ballots have been printed for the general election yet, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission said Monday.
“There are still Congressional and state primaries in some states until September,” said Kristen Muthig, EAC’s director of communications, in an email.
This includes Kansas, whose primaries aren’t until Aug. 6.
State-by-state ballot mailing and certification deadlines dictate when ballots need to be final.
When is Kansas’s deadline to print ballots?
There is no official deadline for the political parties to certify their nominees in Kansas, but the parties must certify their choices to the Kansas Secretary of State’s Office.
The parties typically certify their nominees soon after the conventions. In 2020, Democrats certified Biden as the nominee Aug. 20 and then-President Donald Trump was certified as the Republican nominee Sept. 2, according to the Kansas Secretary of State’s Office.
Advance voting will begin in Kansas on Oct. 16.
The Star’s Jonathan Shorman contributed to this report
This story was originally published July 24, 2024 at 4:33 AM with the headline "How long do Democrats have to get a presidential candidate on Kansas ballots?."
