Not according to what you posted.
According to what you previously posted, states can make their own laws about ballot access (which is what independent registration and write in candidacies are all about). The state laws matter because they exist. In order to challenge them, to either overthrow them, or to get a variance because of fraud, requires a court case and a ruling.
The laws are there, so they matter. Your opinion about them is actually irrelevant. So I revert to my original statement. Mississippi law prohibits write in candidates, (at least in the general election).
I posted clear federal cases that go against state laws like those of MS.
Don’t tell me what I posted. Go back to #119 yourself and read.
States are allowed to make their own ballot access laws but the keys to federal offices reside with federal courts. Many states have been smacked down for their poor lawmaking. Mississippi law with respect to McDaniel is poorly crafted and cannot stand against the case law I quoted.
McDaniel could have his lawyers in federal court next week and be granted a federal injunction barring MS from restricting him ballot access. So far he seeks to invalidate the election at the state level and he’s doing fine.
If the Barbour people continue to ‘slow walk’ the ballots and foreclose on McDaniel’s opportunity to count the vote fraud, then McDaniel has many options. One is that his people can get into federal court and get him on the ballot as an independent. To deny him that option would require the state to show a compelling interest which they can’t because of the clear violation of state election law by the Barbour camp and also the evidence of violation of federal election law.
For those that study and specialize in election law, they know the Feds hold all the cards. The states are only there to do ‘chores’ for the feds, and if they don’t do them properly, then the feds can come down on them. State election law never ever supersedes federal election law. Federal election law is an essential role for the federal government to be involved in and has been that way since the founding.