Americans Don't Elect

Back on April 28, we discussed efforts by a nonpartisan group to field an independent presidential candidate for the November elections. The group announced this week it has failed to generate enough support for its effort, and so will not be holding an online national primary.

The Los Angeles Times reports:

A group behind a costly endeavor to field an independent presidential ticket this fall acknowledged Thursday that its efforts to nominate a candidate had failed.
Americans Elect succeeded in getting on the ballot in 29 states, but none of its prospective candidates received the minimum support needed to participate in a Web-based series of primaries that were to be held this month.
After its board met Wednesday to discuss its options, the group released a statement Thursday indicating that it would not change its rules, effectively disqualifying all the candidates from participating in an online nominating convention that was scheduled next month.
The future of the organization, which raised $35 million and spent two years trying to create a new method for nominating a presidential ticket, remains unclear.

Nice try, but the time has not yet come, apparently, for national primaries on the Web....