Not a fan of Kasick at all, but I think just running should get you on the ballot. Let the voters decide on primary day. I think collecting signatures is a waste of time and money. Also very old way of thinking.
Every ballot would have 100 candidates. The petition hurdle is not insurmountable.
The signature requirement here in PA only sets unapproved candidates up for legal challenges from the GOPe.
For President of the United States and US Senate, 2,000 signatures were required in PA.
But the Republican Establishment snuck in a special rule for signatures for US Senate, signatures from all 67 counties in the state.
The trick there was to prevent any primary challenger to Senator Pat Toomey getting on the GOP ballot.
Toomey has been anti-Second Amendment twice after shootings in Connecticut at the school and in Charleston, SC at the church.
The GOPe protects him in the primary and the inside the beltway NRA will tell us to vote for him in the fall.