The Ohio Secretary of State has rejected the independent presidential petition of Kanye West, even though it had over 14,000 signatures and only 5,000 were required. The Secretary of State says the original declaration of candidacy doesn’t match the copy of the declaration of candidacy used on each petition sheet. Thus, the Secretary of State didn’t even bother to check the validity of the petition signatures.
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You should have an edit button Richard so we can go back to correct our mistakes. With regarding to Kanye West, l hope he appeals the ruling.
The duopoly has become totally paranoid about third party and independent candidates
Happened to be speaking with West Virginia elections office today on another matter and asked about Kanye’s petitions. They said only one county left to report the numbers but that he is way short. Put another checkmark in the abject failure column.
WZ – worse than the paranoid Central Powers in WW I and Axis Powers in WW II ?
The MUCH stranger story is the way Howie Hawkins of the Green Party got on the ballot.
Robert Duncan, an Ohio man, who apparently has a long-standing hobby, of spending 4 years, to single-handedly gather the 5,000 signatures to get on the Ohio ballot for president, has given up his spot, to Howie Hawkins.
https://www.ohiosos.gov/media-center/press-releases/2020/2020-08-212/?fbclid=IwAR0ZHXAsFBG7BIB4oHZDSk74C40NSB6rFl3NKq8Vyb8rXWj0GVbq_cNH6Ew
I thought this story was going to be about Cornel West.
@Fact Checker – You’ll have to wait til August 30 for that: https://peoplesparty.org/
The American Solidarity Party’s Tennessee petition failed for a somewhat similar reason; a package with an original signature was lost in the mail.
It’s important to publicize these unfair practices.
Will Kanye be a write-in for Ohio? The deadline for that is the same time I think.
As in Wisconsin, this is the state commission informing West that his “campaign’s” fraud has been caught and that they’ll give him a chance to leave quietly.
Politics1.com beat you to it, Richard: “Kanye West was disqualified from the West Virginia ballot. He fell roughly 800 short of the required 7,144 valid petition signatures.”
Howie Hawkins, however, did make the ballot in Ohio as an independent candidate.