Jill Stein Will Appear on Wisconsin Ballot, But Ineligible in Georgia With Three Other Candidates
However, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger will have the final decision, though, if Stein and the other candidates can appear on the state’s ballot.
The Wisconsin State Court refused to hear the state’s Democratic Party challenge to keep Green Party candidate Jill Stein off the ballot.
Therefore, Stein stays on the Wisconsin ballot.
However, a judge ruled that Stein and three other independent/third-party candidates cannot appear on the Georgia ballot.
We also learned that a judge ordered Michigan to keep Cornel West on the ballot.
Wisconsin, Georgia, and Michigan are swing states.
Wisconsin
The state’s Supreme Court issued the filing today, unsigned, without any reason.
“It is ordered that the petition for leave to commence an original action is denied,” according to the order. “We determine that the petitioner is not entitled to the relief he seeks; and, it is further ordered that all other pending motions are denied as moot.”
The Wisconsin Democrat Party filed a lawsuit a few weeks ago to keep Stein off the ballot.
David Strange, as an individual and deputy operations director of Wisconsin for the DNC, filed the complaint, claiming the Wisconsin Green Party (WGP) did not “comply with Wisconsin’s election statutes.”
Strange insisted that Stein could not be on the ballot because the “WGP failed to nominate any candidates for Wisconsin Senate or Assembly, and a sufficient number of electors did not nominate a candidate by writing in any WGP candidate for Wisconsin Senate or Assembly, according to the requirements of Wisconsin Statute section 8.16(2).”
“Thus, WGP conclusively has no candidates for Wisconsin Senate or Assembly in the general election, nor are there currently any WGP state officeholders or holdover senators,” Strange continued. “Consequently, no individual will be authorized under Wisconsin Statute section 8.18 to nominate presidential electors to represent WGP when the nomination meeting is held on the first Tuesday of October.”
Plenty of leftists blamed Stein for spoiling the election for failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Stein received 31,000 votes in Wisconsin in 2016, but President Donald Trump beat Clinton in the state by only 22,000 votes.
I know the Democrats pressured Ralph Nader not to run in 2000 and 2004.
The Republicans hated Ross Perot.
Georgia
Michael Malihi, an administrative law judge, found Jill Stein, RFK Jr., Cornel West, and Party for Socialism and Liberation’s Claudia De la Cruz ineligible for the ballot.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger will have the final decision, though.
Once again, the Democrats fought to keep these candidates off the ballot.
The Democrats argued that the “independent candidates must be filed in the name of the 16 presidential electors, and not the candidates themselves, citing a change made to Georgia law in 2017.”
In Georgia, independent candidates desiring to appear on the ballot must meet the requirements expressed in Code Section 21-2-132. One such requirement is that the candidate file a notice of candidacy accompanied by an affidavit. 0.C.G.A. § 21-2-132(9). This affidavit must state the candidate’s “residence, with street and number, if any” and that “he or she is an elector of the county or municipality of his or her residence.” 0.C.G.A. § 21-2-132(9)(2), (5). Candidates must also file a nomination petition in the form prescribed in Code Section 212-170.” 0.C.G.A. §21-2-132(¢). According to subsection (d) of Code Section 21-2-170, each nomination petition sheet must bear the candidate’s “place of residence with street and number …. > O.C.G.A. § 21- 2170(d).
Malihi also said RFK Jr. shouldn’t appear on the ballot because he used a “sham” New York address to gain access to the ballot.
However, RFK Jr. wants to remove his name from swing states after he suspended his campaign and threw support behind Donald Trump.
Joe Biden beat Trump “by fewer than 12,000 votes in 2020.” That’s 49.47% to 49.24%. More:
- Libertarian Jo Jorgensen: 1.24%
- Green Party candidate: Howie Hawkins (write-in): 0.02%
- American Solidarity candidate Brian Carroll (wrote-in): 0.01%
In 2016, Trump beat Hillary Clinton 50.38% to 45.29%. More:
- Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson: 3.02%
- Independent Evan McMullin (write-in): 0.32%
- Green Party candidate Jill Stein (write-in): 0.19%
- Constitution Candidate: Darrell Castle (write-in): 0.03%
- Others/Write-In: 0.78%
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Will Operation Demoralize receive a knockout blow when Marianne Williamson endorses Trump?
Trump will invite Snooki to endorse Kamala.
She already does.
This is as far I as understand:
– The Constitution establishes clear and unambiguous qualifications to run for President.
– States have the authority to regulate “Places and Manner of holding Elections” but not to change eligibility criteria.
Can someone please explain how or why would the courts even listen to anyone trying to go around it, especially what democrats are trying to do?
“Can someone please explain…”
Because a leftist-tainted court will always rule for party and ideology rather than law.
States can’t change the eligibility criteria for any federal office. But state legislatures have plenary power over how presidential electors are chosen. They can make any rules they like, including that the state’s electors shall be chosen by the Democrat Party, or that candidates’ names must begin with the letter Q, or that only electors pledged to a candidate over the age of 50 shall be eligible.
In this case the GA legislature seems to have said that while political parties may nominate a presidential candidate as well as a list of 16 electoral candidates who intend to support that candidate if they win, independent slates must list only the 16 electoral candidates, not the presidential candidate they intend to support if they win. The legislature has the right to say that, and no judge has the right to override it.
I think you’re wrong in the conclusion (not by precedent, but by reasoning). I doubt the rules for electors could be set quite as willy-nilly as you state, based on Constitutional amendments and federal law.
While you’re right that the elector issue is what Georgia set, putting the names on the ballot of ANYONE running for President should be set entirely by their Constitutional eligibility.
There’s also the question of “Why aren’t the people who signed their petition considered as ‘electors’?” They have to be validly registered voters, right?
What amendments? And no federal law can override the constitution.
The ballot is NOT for presidential candidates, it’s for electors. We do not elect the president, we elect our state’s electors. And we only do so because our state legislature decided that’s how our state’s electors will be chosen. Tomorrow morning it can change its mind, and there will be no presidential election in our state.
I’m not sure what you mean here. Please cite the passage to which this refers. Because I’m not sure whether you mean “elector” as in someone who elects the president, or as in someone who elects his state’s electors.
That’s congressional elections. And Congress can override all such state regulations, except for the location of polling places where people can vote for senator.
(It can override state regulations for polling places for the House. So if state law says polling places for congressional elections may be as much as 5 miles apart, and Congress says no, they can’t be more than 1 mile apart, the state must create the additional polling places that Congress insists on, but if it wants to be difficult it can say that people who show up to vote at those additional places shall only be given a ballot for the House, not for the senate. If they want to vote for senator as well, they have to go to a place authorized by state law.)
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I have been following what West is doing. He’s now won every court fight to be on ballots and the Ga. case is being fought right now. He is the one that will pull a lot of votes from Harris as he has the backing of the Palestine/Israel conflict protestors. I may not like the man but I am glad he is fighting back against the corrupt DNC.
I will repeat what I wrote on the Cornel West post: