On September 3, the West Virginia Secretary of State asked the U.S. District Court that is hearing Kanye West’s ballot access case to transfer the case to another U.S. District Court Judge, who is hearing the lawsuit filed by independent gubernatorial candidate Marshall Wilson. Here is the state’s eight-page request. Kanye West’s case is West v Warner, 2:20cv-570. Marshall Wilson’s case is 2:20cv-526.

The two cases are not similar, even if they both concern ballot access. Wilson’s case concerns the health crisis. He did not submit as many signatures as are required, but he asks to be put on the ballot anyway. By contrast, West’s case is about due process. West submitted twice as many signatures as are required, but he was told he did not have enough valid and he was not given a chance to challenge that finding.

On September 2, Kanye West submitted 57,892 signatures to be on the Arizona ballot as an independent presidential candidate. The requirement is 37,769. The deadline is September 4, so for this petition, he did not wait until the last day to file. See this story.

The story says the requirement is 39,039. That is an error. The requirement is 3% of the number of registered voters as of March 1, 2020. The author of the story seems to think it is 3% of the current number.

On August 31, Kanye West filed this brief in the Ohio Supreme Court, in his ballot access case. State ex rel West v La Rose, 2020-1044.