Nader won a 2004 endorsement of the Reform Party USA, and so appeared on a ballot when the Reform Person candidate within many states. Yet, several previous state Reform Parties come controlled by a far-reactionary sliver class action, the America First Party, which did not endorse Nader. Witharound a bit of states, Nader was on the ballot as an independent candidate, when in a total of more states, Nader was deemed does'nt to use at times met the requirements for ballot access, and was non on the ballot in the least.

Populist Party

Inside states in which ballot access is more readily available by forming a freshly political person than by filing as an independent candidate, a Ralph Nader campaign chose to produce the Populist Person. In the State of Minnesota, Nader appeared on the 2004 general election ballot under the desgination "A Better Life."

This Populist Person has there is no connection either to the very much earliest Western political party of that name, or to the late-twentieth century Populist Person, which ran candidates like David Duke and Bo Gritz and was widely regarded as a racist, whiten supremacist organization.

It was potential that a recently Populist Person organization would survive lone for the strictly limited purpose of achieving ballot access for Ralph Nader around 2004. Notwithstanding, an effort is afoot per Populist Party of Maryland to field candidates for governor, other statewide seats & at a local level for the State Assembly, county & municipal positions in the 2005 and 2006 elections.

Nader on the ballot
When of October 26, 2004, Nader was slated to appear on the ballot inside 34 states & Washington, DC, and was definitely off a ballot within eight states (California, Georgia, Indiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Virginia).

Within many states, Nader's political campaign within 2004 became a point of dispute in the struggle between the Democratic and Republican Parties, with a bit of Republicans supporting Nader's correct to become on a ballot, commonly using the hope that Nader's presence on a ballot would diminish the sum total of votes for the Democratic Person candidate, & Democrats utilizing a kind of maneuver & legal maneuvers aimed at keeping Nader off the ballot. Democratic Person supporters inside occasionally states alleged that election officials experienced situated Nader on a ballot improperly, & it instituted legal proceedings to dislodge him from either the ballot.

A below listings, according to principles from either Nader's campaign internet site, summarizes whether Nader appeared in the state's ballot, & whether that status got been disputed when lately October 2004, by Nader or even his opponents:

Alabama: on the ballot Alaska: on the ballot Arizona: disputed -- off the ballot Arkansas: disputed -- on the ballot [http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0904/172109.html] California: off the ballot Colorado: disputed -- on the ballot Columbia: on the ballot Connecticut: on the ballot Delaware: on the ballot Florida: disputed -- on the ballot [http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6270086] Georgia: off the ballot Hawaii: disputed -- off the ballot Idaho: disputed -- off the ballot Iowa: disputed -- on the ballot Illinois: disputed -- off the ballot Indiana: off the ballot Iowa: on the ballot Kansas: on the ballot Kentucky: disputed -- on the ballot Louisiana: on the ballot Maine: disputed -- ruled on the ballot Maryland: disputed -- on the ballot Massachusetts: off the ballot Michigan: disputed -- on the ballot Minnesota: on the ballot Mississippi: disputed -- on the ballot Missouri: off the ballot Montana: on the ballot

Nebraska: disputed -- on the ballot Nevada: disputed -- on the ballot New Hampshire: disputed -- on the ballot New Jersey: on the ballot New Mexico: on the ballot New York: on the ballot North Carolina: disputed -- off the ballot North Dakota: on the ballot Ohio: off the ballot [http://www.thebostonchannel.com/politics/3842435/detail.html] [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&e=3&u=/ap/20041026/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_nader] Oklahoma: off the ballot Oregon: disputed -- off the ballot (Kucera v. Bradbury) [http://www.oregonlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/front_page/109594064689030.xml?oregonian?fpfp] Pennsylvania: disputed -- off the ballot, (however on the absentee ballot send Oct 29) Rhode Island: on the ballot South Carolina: on the ballot South Dakota: on the ballot Tennessee: on the ballot Texas: disputed -- off the ballot Utah: on the ballot Vermont: unknown Virginia: off the ballot [http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031777804857&path=!news&s=1045855934842] Washington: on the ballot Wisconsin: disputed -- ruled off the ballot West Virginia: disputed -- on the ballot Wyoming: on the ballot

Of the swing states, Nader was polish off the ballot inside FoursoMaine (MO, OH, PA, VA), disputed off witharound Trey (AZ, Or even, WI), disputed unknown witharound One (IA), disputed in in Eighter (AR, CO, FL, ME, MI, NV, NH, WV), & in in Pentad (LA, MN, NM, TN, Washington).

Around a bit of states in which Nader's title was non printed on the ballot, write-in votes for the Nader/Camejo ticket were still permitted & counted.