Brock Pierce knows he won’t be elected president this year. But the child-actor-turned-cryptocurrency-investor has a more attainable goal as he campaigns for the country’s highest office in New York: getting enough votes to keep the Independence Party’s ballot line. New York lawmakers changed the state’s ballot-access laws in April, setting a new threshold for a party’s presidential nominee. Previously, a party won an automatic slot on ballots for four years if its gubernatorial candidate received 50,000 votes. A party must...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 27, 2020 23:03 UTC