Evan McMullin is running as a conservative alternative to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. | Getty Never Trump candidate McMullin misses Wyoming ballot

Independent conservative presidential candidate Evan McMullin has failed to qualify for the Wyoming presidential ballot, as his campaign did not submit enough valid signatures to secure a spot.

To qualify for the Wyoming ballot, candidates needed to hand in 3,302 valid signatures by an Aug. 29 deadline. The McMullin campaign submitted roughly 5,500 signatures, but too few were valid for McMullin to qualify, according to the Wyoming Secretary of State’s Office.


“He failed to obtain the requisite number of valid signatures,” spokesman Will Dinneen wrote in an email.

Dinneen’s office on Thursday released the names of the presidential candidates who would appear on the ballot: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson, Constitution Party nominee Darrell Castle, Independent Rocky De La Fuente and Green Party nominee Jill Stein.

McMullin is running as a conservative alternative to Trump and Clinton, hoping to capture the support of the “Never Trump” movement and others unenthused by their major party options. McMullin is on the ballot in Minnesota, Colorado, South Carolina, Louisiana, Utah, Arkansas, Idaho, Virginia, Utah and Iowa. But he’s failed to get on the ballot in states with high signature requirements, like California, as well as others with lower requirements, like Tennessee and, more recently, North Dakota.

The McMullin campaign said it was looking into legal action to get the candidate on the ballot.

"Our attorneys are at this hour assessing available options to give voice to the thousands in Wyoming who sought to provide a better alternative to voters this fall," the campaign said in a statement.