VP candidate for Approval Voting Party (2016)
Running mate with nominee: Frank Atwood (b. 1948)
Popular vote: 337 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538
The campaign:
Frank Atwood and Blake Huber, two activists with strong ties to the Libertarian Party, formed the first Approval Voting Party ticket in the 2016 election. Atwood boiled down the single-issue party into a couple slogans: "Check all the candidates yea or nay, the most yeas wins at the end of the day" and "Approval voting is simply saying, mark off all that you approve of."
The Atwood/Huber ticket made the ballot in their home state of Colorado. Being residents of the same state could have posed a potential Constitutional problem in the event of their victory.
You can read more about the 2016 and 2020 APV campaigns in my interview with Mr. Huber--
https://thirdpartysecondbananas.blogspot.com/2020/04/blake-huber-approval-voting-party-2016.html
Election history:
1982 - Kansas House of Representatives (Libertarian) - defeated
2018 - Colorado Secretary of State (Unaffiliated) - defeated
2020 - US President (Approval Voting Party) - defeated
Other occupations: telecommunications industry, apartment manager, motel manager, car rental agency supervisor, Libertarian Party National Committee, State Chair of the Libertarian Party of Kansas
Notes:
Although on the ballot as "Unaffiliated" in 2018, Huber was representing the APV.
Huber supported Gary Johnson in the 2016 election.
Washington State trivia alert!!! It appears Mr. Huber once lived in the southwest corner of Washington.
