Michigan Secretary of State Removes Cornel West from the Ballot

On August 16, the Michigan Secretary of State ruled that independent presidential candidate Cornel West should be removed from the ballot, even though he has enough valid signatures.  The Secretary of State says his declaration of candidacy was not notarized properly.  See this story.


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Michigan Secretary of State Removes Cornel West from the Ballot — 12 Comments

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  2. The Democrats really are terrified, huh? All 3rd party candidates pull from the Democrats, even the libertarian candidate this cycle.

  3. WZ 12:17 PM

    ABOUT 40 DAYS FROM NOV E DAY TO DEC EC VOTE DAY— USA CONST 2-1-4

    HOW MANY ZILLION COMMIE/FASCIST FOLKS WOULD ALLEGEDLY MOVE TO MICH AND TRY AND GET REGISTERED ???

    IE APPARENTLY NOOOO EC RUNOFFS ALLOWED ???

  4. @Term Limits NY, because he had fundamental disagreements with the Party and I don’t think he could have won the nomination. I’m surprised he didn’t try to get the Michigan Working Class Party’s nomination. The WCP rarely, if ever, puts up a presidential candidate, but they are running candidates in the 1st, 3rd, 8th, 9th, 10th, 12th, and 13th Congressional districts. They don’t have a candidate for the Senate even though the Natural Law Party does. Natural Law picked Kennedy for their presidential candidate. The WCP is the only Michigan Party left that doesn’t have a presidential candidate and they are the resident Socialist party.

    It is always easier to get a 3rd party’s endorsement in Michigan than to try to get a petition done. The Secretary of State LOVES claiming that signatures are fake on petitions despite most of them coming from college campuses in my opinion. Though, that might be the problem: out-of-stater students trying to sign Michigan petitions. Either way, Senate candidates, especially GOP ones, get their petitions tossed in the trash a lot, disturbingly often. That’s why James Craig couldn’t run in the 2022 Senate race.

  5. AX wrote:

    “ABOUT 40 DAYS FROM NOV E DAY TO DEC EC VOTE DAY— USA CONST 2-1-4

    “HOW MANY ZILLION COMMIE/FASCIST FOLKS WOULD ALLEGEDLY MOVE TO MICH AND TRY AND GET REGISTERED ??”

    Approval, proportional ranked choice, or cumulative voting would solve this problem, but these alternative methods of voting do not have enough wide spread support yet. Several states already have experience with run-off voting, so it appears to have a greater acceptance level at this point.

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