California Secretary of State Removes Butch Ware, Green Party Gubernatorial Candidate, from Ballot; Ware Sues to be Reinstated

On March 16, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber removed Butch Ware from the June 2, 2026 primary ballot. He is the Green Party candidate for Governor.

California wants two copies of each year’s tax return for the last five years. One copy of each year’s return must be identical to the original, and the other copy must be the same except that certain items must be redacted. The Secretary of State found a flaw in the redaction process. Ware’s phone number was not properly redacted, because the redaction software didn’t function correctly. Ware v Weber, 26WM000074.

On March 19, Ware filed a lawsuit in Sacramento Superior Court to get back on the ballot. Here is his filing. The case is assigned to Judge James Arguelles, the same judge who last week put a congressional candidate on the ballot on qualifications grounds.

UPDATE: here is the Secretary of State’s filing.


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California Secretary of State Removes Butch Ware, Green Party Gubernatorial Candidate, from Ballot; Ware Sues to be Reinstated — 40 Comments

  1. What a crazy system. It reminds me of digging up a dead pope to put his corpse on “trial.” The modern supercomplexity of laws, bureaucracy, and elections is no less absurd.

  2. That doesn’t change just because in this case it thwarted a candidate who wants to make government even bigger and more complex than it already is.

  3. Was Wesley directed to disqualify candidates, or was he acting in his officious capacity?

  4. Only Trump can fix the problem of the deep state unelected bureaucrats. Nobody else. He alone can fix it and save America!

  5. That’s right!

    The time has come to get serious about repealing the 22nd Amendment so we can keep Trump in office past 2029! Are any of you helping organize efforts to lobby your state legislature and congress to repeal 22, keep 47?

  6. Donald Trump is the man, a lifetime member of the Klan! If Donald Trump can’t save America then I bet nobody can!

  7. @ Repeal 22, Keep 47:

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    Congress can’t even pass the SAVE ACT which 80% of Americans support right now because the evil DEMON RATS are holding it up with a non-talking filibuster and the spineless rhinos can’t even muster enough votes to make them get up and filibuster for real.

    So what do we do to stop yet another election from being stolen by the DEMON RATS?

    President Trump needs to declare a national emergency and have ICE and BORDER PATROL safeguard and administer all elections in all states this November! No absentee ballots or early voting, all results to be announced before midnight on election night!

    Any non citizens who show up to be arrested and transported for deportation on the spot! Any citizens with arrest warrants arrested on the spot and turned over to local police!

    If the Supreme Court declares the national emergency to be illegal, Trump has to ignore their ruling and proceed. Like President Jackson said, that’s just, like, their opinion, man. President Jackson was the dude!

    Then, after we finally have a real election in the first time in forever, we can finally begin to really fix our country and make it great again. And that includes changing or replacing the constitution so we can keep our President Trump!

  8. Forever Trump, I want to have forever Trump
    Do you really want Trump as President forever?
    Forever, and ever
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  9. Once we have a national emergency declared and a real election, President Trump can shut down all the fake news outlets like USSR Yesterday and fake news Spambots like the (n)AZ(I)-666!

  10. Fake news and pre-programmed screaming from the nAZi-666 spambot about “Tyrant” Trump.

    Programmed by a malicious troll full of wishful thinking about nuclear war, assassination of the President who is our best hope in many decades, and even the end of humanity.

    Clearly this evil troll is a demon serving Lucifer, or Lucifer himself.

    Then more fake news via the spambot. As anyone with a lick of sense knows, no real news gets posted via the nAZi-666 spambot.

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  12. Restore Britain’s membership is now bigger than the Tories. Still not worth a blog post as far as Richard Winger is concerned.

  13. TFFT:

    Why wait until November to declare a national emergency? President Trump could start by nationalizing the oil and gas industry, including all refineries and gas stations, so he can set the price of gas by executive order. Why wait longer and pay more than we have to?

  14. I support Donald Trump by supporting Patriarchy and I support Patriarchy by supporting Donald Trump!

    We support Donald Trump by supporting White Power and we support White Power by supporting Donald Trump!

  15. I like the idea above about an executive order from Trump solving the country’s severe ED (Electoral Dysfunction) problems involving voter registration, vote fraud, and vote counting fraud.

  16. I also just love being ordered around by an executive. POTUS 47 can be my personal strict boss any time! That’s so hot!

  17. Would you say most people are naturally submissive like sheep, best suited to be dominated and led by shepherds or eaten by alpha wolves and their packs? Do you think the masses of asses will be happier when they get a dick-tator?

  18. Q,

    That is actually inevitable. Under the pretense of “democracy” (which the US never pretended to aim to become until the not so great WWI – we should have stayed out of it), the sheep are just psychologically manipulated into thinking they are making the decisions through their representatives, or, God forbid, directly (the second is even worse).

    To keep dumbocracy from turning into total lynch mob rule and economic disaster too quickly, the safeguards of a republican form of government such as those attempted by the US founders are needed.

    But as we can see from how their system evolved over 250 years, those safeguards were entirely inadequate in the long term, to where now the underhanded, unnatural aristocracy of global elitists is freely practicing population replacement and long term reconditioning of the descendants of the previously dominant population to turn is into a third world craphole.

    We can see how that’s likely to play out in post-Apartheid south Africa and, a little further down the road, the former Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.

    That’s why I’m proposing a much stricter set of safeguards.

    The practical alternatives are

    1) several billion people in the world being ruled by a natural aristocracy of a few million (about 1/1k, very roughly) people with minimal, local government only

    Or

    2) several billion people covertly governed by a few thousand global elitists – about one in a million people – in unmanageable giant nation states or a global superstate – with an unnatural aristocracy, while pretending they are governing themselves.

    Given actual human nature, several billion people actually governing themselves is impossible. What ends up happening is #2.

    Sure, #2 happens, but it takes a lot of assholes to make it happen.

  19. nonstop minority rule gerrymander regimes in the USA since 1776 – carried over from olde Brit regimes since late 1200s.

    partisan hack execs/judics since 1776

    Result – commie/fascist tyrant regimes — USA and all 50 States plus colony regimes

    NOW WITH TYRANT TRUMP QUITE POSSIBLE WW III AND END OF HUMANS ON MOTHER EARTH.

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  20. The nAZi-666 spambot’s programmer only wishes that was true. Fortunately for that demonic troll, Liberator Trump is the opposite of a tyrant. Otherwise, his spambot would already be shut down.

  21. Ware’s not leftist enough for me, but he’d make a good governor. Hope he gets ballot access, and I wish him the best of luck getting as many votes as possible, while California should get rid of the atrocious top two system.

  22. @Q,

    Ware’s communication with the SOS’ was with a person named “Wesley” (unless the SOS has an AI agent named Wesley). Part of Ware’s complaint is that Wesley would give contradictory responses. He would first say that there were problems with four years of tax returns, and then say only two, before going back to say four.

    The purpose of the redacted version is so the SOS can publish it. If the SOS did the redaction a campaign could complain about the SOS making mistakes.

  23. Gene, I thought you always claim he is Stock. Are you now acknowledging that not everyone here with leftist views is Stock?

  24. I thought these letters were supposed to be about whether or not Ware should be on the June primary ballot. I don’t think that any candidate should be kept off the ballot because of small technical glitches. Let’s stay on the subject.

  25. I’m sick and tired of Democrats and Republicans we need to try something different, and if it doesn’t work out kick that person out. If we do not try something different, it will be the same old thing: complain, complain, complain!

  26. An actual serious comment in relation to this short article that isn’t trolling, pro-cult gibberish: It’s unfortunate Ware is having to go through all of these hurdles. I hope he succeeds in his case. It really seems like the powers that be are trying to keep him down. Maybe they’re concerned of a potential 2000 Nader/Gore/Bush scenario that would cause an unfair split, but if the democratic party thinks they would be losing “due to write-ins or votes for a third party” then it shows how similar they are to the current republican party by being detached, greedy, and just using buzzwords to keep their constituents instead of delivering for the middle and lower classes that make up a majority of our country.

  27. “An actual serious comment in relation to this short article that isn’t trolling, pro-cult gibberish:”

    Except that’s exactly what your comment is – pro cult gibberish – even if you are serious and not trolling. As for the other comments, they reflect a variety of viewpoints. Some of them may be trolling, or not.

  28. The story’s much worse since the office was forced to admit that they did in fact have the correct forms, but had already disqualified his name from being on the ballot. It was shady through and through, but he’s registered as a write-in so his supporters are still going to put his name down. This whole debacle only made folks rally around him more, so really makes me wonder if this was an unintended consequence of an intentionally bad action or just odd karmic justice for California voters who are sick of both corrupt major parties…

  29. I agree. Classic screw job. And I’m as far from California or left wing as you can get.

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