President Barack Obama is running unopposed in Democratic primary elections this year, although Texas inmate Keith Russell Judd wants his name on the West Virginia Democratic primary election ballot in May, and he could qualify too.
According to Ballot Access News, “anyone who postally mails the filing fee with a postmark no later than January 28″ can qualify for the West Virginia Democratic primary election.
Mr. Judd is scheduled to be released from a Texas federal prison for threats that he made at the University of New Mexico in 1999.
This has become an ongoing theme of Mr. Judd, who was placed on the Idaho Democratic primary ballot in 2008 and 2004 by submitting his name on a notarized form and paying the required $1,000 fee.
He’s also reportedly submitted the $2,500 fee required for the 2012 Democratic primary ballot submission in West Virginia. Mr. Judd pays the fees with checks drawn from his prison account.
Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum have qualified for the West Virginia Republican primary ballot in May, although it is unknown whether all of them will remain in the Republican primary race until then.
Mr. Obama nor his campaign staff or the West Virginia Democratic Party have commented on the filing by Mr. Judd.
