governor of Arizona Evan Mecham. C.U.R.E. endorsed Collins over other potential choices including former California State Assemblyman and State Senator Don Rogers, who would later be the presidential candidate of the American Party in the 2000 presidential election and John Yiamouyiannas, formerly a candidate of Take Back America who had received 2,199 votes in the 1992 presidential election. On August 21, 1996 Collins attempted to have the United States Supreme Court declare all state ballot access laws to be unconstitutional. They declined his motion. Continuing to run as an independent candidate, Collins chose as his Vice Presidential running mate Rosemary Giumarra of Porterville, California. Collins and Giumarra received 8,952 votes in the election. 2000 Presidential election In 2000, Collins attempted to win the nomination of the Reform Party. He fell far behind the frontrunner Pat Buchanan in the party's important Missouri primary with 295 votes versus 2,214, though he beat John Hagelin. In California, Collins fell in last place with 1,681 votes. He thereafter attempted to win the party's nomination for Vice President. The convention split into two factions: Buchanan and Hagelin. In the Buchanan convention, Collins received 23 votes versus the winner of the nomination Ezola B. Foster. Death Collins died in Macon, Georgia, on September 16, 2012, at the age of 83. Notes References https://web.archive.org/web/20101028101426/http://www.politics1.com/reform.htm citing . : Further reading "Charles E. Collins for President," The Gordon Hall and Grace Hoag Collection of Dissenting and Extremist Printed Propaganda, Brown University Library. OCLC 46319142. 1929 births 2012 deaths American cattlemen American political activists Candidates in the 1996 United States presidential election Candidates in the 2000 United States presidential election 20th-century American politicians