On September 16, an Idaho state court ruled that Kanye West should remain on the ballot as an independent candidate for president. The judge said that the law only requires candidates who use the independent procedure to “state that such persons are offering themselves as independent candidates.” The decision says that because West signed that statement, he fulfilled the law. The decision says that whether he is registered as a party member is irrelevant. Idaho Democratic Party v Denney, cv-01-20-14470. Here is the 15-page decision.
This decision is a case of first impression. Never before had any presidential candidate been kept off any ballot, primary or general, on the basis of how he or she is registered. Many presidential candidates who have used the independent procedure in Idaho were registered party members in their home state. For example, Jill Stein used the Idaho independent procedure in both 2012 and 2016, yet she was a registered Green in her home state of Massachusetts. So the September 16 decision does conform to Idaho precedent.
I’ll give you an over/under of oh, 600 votes for the washed-up rapper in Potato Land.
It is good to see Kanye West get a victory in a ballot access considering that he has been screwed over in some other states.
Kanye is a mentally deranged lunatic billionaire racist black supremacist.
This is a positive. Let’s even assume he is only going to get 600 votes or that he is a mental lunatic (which wouldn’t make him different from Trump or Biden), look at this has not just a victory for Kanye West but for third party candidates. Keep in mind the way states have been screwing Kanye West is the same way they have been denying ballot access to other candidates. Kanye West got denied ballot access to Wisconsin because the door of a building was locked so was 14 seconds in getting in the paperwork. In a past election there was a minor candidate who lost ballot access because of a hurricane had closed an office. It might be Kanye West this time but I promise you that people are going to screw other minor parties out of the ballots by technicalities.