On August 19, the staff of the Wisconsin Elections Commission recommended to the Commission that both Howie Hawkins and Kanye West be omitted from the November ballot as presidential candidates. The Hawkins petition doesn’t have enough valid signatures when the sheets showing the out-of-date postal address for the vice-presidential nominee are omitted.

The West petition was deemed to have been submitted after 5 p.m.

This story has a link to the commission recommendations. The Hawkins petition discussion starts at page 34. On August 20, the Elections Commission will decide whether to omit one or both candidates.

According to this story, seven presidential candidates have submitted petitions to be on the ballot in Minnesota. The only ballot-qualified parties in Minnesota are Democratic-Farmer-Labor, Republican, Legal Marijuana Now, and Grassroots-Legalize Marijuana Parties. The latter two are not expected to nominate anyone for president. For other parties, 2,000 signatures were required to place a presidential nominee on the ballot.

The petitions are for Rocky De La Fuente (Alliance); Howie Hawkins (Green); Jo Jorgensen (Libertarian); Alyson Kennedy (Socialist Workers); Gloria La Riva (Socialism & Liberation); independent Brock Pierce; and independent Kanye West.

U.S. District Court Judge Thomas E. Johnston, a Bush Jr. appointee, will hear Wilson v Justice, s.d., 2:20cv-526, on Friday, August 21, at 10 a.m. This is the ballot access case filed by independent gubernatorial candidate Stephen “Marshall” Wilson. He worked hard on his petition and would probably have succeeded without the health crisis.