On February 7, Cornel West filed this amended complaint in his Pennsylvania ballot access lawsuit, West v Pennsylvania Department of State, w.d., 2:24cv-1349. The case challenges the unequal state requirements for presidential elector candidates. If a party has 15% of the registration, its candidates for presidential elector need file nothing. Instead the party files a list of their names and addresses.
But everyone else must have a full slate of presidential elector candidates, and each presidential elector candidate must submit a notarized declaration of candidacy. This rule kept Cornel West, Claudia De la Cruz, and Randall Terry off the ballot last year.
“If a party has 15% of the registration, its candidates for presidential elector need file nothing. Instead the party files a list of their names and addresses.”
In Pennsylvania, they put people on the ballot without their consent???
“…presidential electors do not appear on the ballot.”
That isn’t true. Voters vote for presidential electors. Otherwise, Pennsylvania would lose all representation in Congress under 14-2.