ELECTION INFO: SECRETARY OF STATE
STATE-ISTICS: STATE INFORMATION

General ballot access for major parties:

Party files a certificate of nomination with the
Secretary of State no later than 30 days following
the state convention [22-19-102 (a)]
Or received 2% of the votes in the last
gubernatorial, Secretary of State or US House of
Representatives election.

General ballot access for minor parties:

Placed on ballot by party convention [22-4-303]
Submits names to the Secretary of State within 30
days of the convention[22-4-305]

General ballot access for new party candidates:

Petition: 2% of the total number of votes cast for
U.S. Representative in the last general election (in
2004 this will be approximately 1,821 signatures) [22-4-402 (a-d)]
Deadline: June 1 in any general election year
[22-4-402 (a-d)]

General ballot access for independent candidates:

Petition: 2% of the votes cast for US Representative
in the last general election. (In 2004, will be
approximately 1,821 signatures) [22-5-304]
Deadline: 70 days before a general election
[22-5-307]
No filing fees

Last day to withdraw from the ballot: no statute

Source:
The Reform Institute (December 2003). Presidential Ballot Access: State by State Scorecard. Retrieved November 10, 2008, from https://www.policyarchive.org/bitstream/handle/10207/5646/2003scorecard.....