On September 1, two of Kanye West’s presidential elector candidates in Virginia sued the Virginia State Board of Elections, arguing they were tricked into signing up as presidential elector candidates for West. The lawsuit is in Circuit Court, Richmond City, Wilson v Virginia State Board of Elections.
Under El-Amin v State Board of Elections, independent candidates in Virginia have a constitutional right to resign from the ticket and be replaced. 721 F.Supp.770 (e.d., 1989). Thus it seems the more logical approach would be for the electors to simply resign as electors, and let the West campaign replace them. Electors must sign a declaration of candidacy that is notarized, but the complaint says that the notary did not notarize the declarations in front of them. Furthermore the notary was herself one of the candidates for elector, and the Virginia law on notaries does not permit notaries to notarize documents in which they themselves have an interest.
I would love to read their explanation of HOW they were tricked into signing their name. Was there some other document with a hole in it that they signed through?
And I don’t see the relevance of the El-Amin case, but here is the link in case anyone wants to decipher it: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/717/1138/1584443/
So, maybe Presidential electors should be allowed to switch their votes after chosen, if they can plead that they were mislead by their candidate.
One more reason to abolish the EC and ALL the ROT connected with it.
Given the numerous other fraudulent activities of the GOP/ West “campaign” in various states, why should they be extended any benefit of the doubt? Why assume this application is honest when so many others were not?