LINCOLN- Third-party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that he had turned in enough signatures this week in Nebraska to allow his name to appear on November's ballot. The Kennedy campaign said that it had turned in more than 5,000 signatures to the Secretary of State's Office.

The state's chief election office must now check the signature and verify at least 2,500 of those, the minimum number needed to appear on the ballot. Lane Koch, Kennedy's regional director in the Midwest, thanked volunteers for "a historic day." Most political observers give Kennedy little chance to beat either President Joe Biden or presumptive Republican nominee and former President Donald Trump.

However, some consider Kennedy a potential spoiler in swing districts, where a percentage point of three could alter a state's Electoral College votes, like in Omaha's 2nd Congressional District. Dona-Gene Barton, a political scientist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said third-party candidates in close races can "disrupt the election results."

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