On September 11, the Nebraska Secretary of State determined that two independent presidential petitions have enough valid signatures: Jill Stein and Shiva Ayyadurai. However, he said that he would not put Ayyadurai on the ballot because he was born in India.
He also said that he is permitting Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to withdraw.
The qualified parties in Nebraska are Republican, Democratic, Libertarian (Chase Oliver), and Legal Marijuana Now (Cornel West).
On September 10, a Superior Court in Alaska rejected a Democratic Party challenge to the ballot position of Eric Hafner, a candidate for U.S. House and a registered Democrat. See this story. Hafner is in prison and the Democratic Party had argued that if elected, he could not serve.
The Democratic Party didn’t want Hafner on the ballot because they feared some voters might vote for Hafner, instead of the party’s incumbent, even though Alaska uses ranked choice voting.
The case is Alaska Democratic Party v Beecher, S19231.
On September 10, the New York State Court of Appeals, the highest state court, refused to hear Cartwright v Kennedy. This is the case in which the lower state courts had ruled that Kennedy can’t be on the ballot because he didn’t really live at the address he listed on his declaration of candidacy.
Kennedy has a case in federal court in New York, but if he doesn’t win that, New York will be the only state in the nation with only two presidential candidates’ names on the November 2024 ballot, something that the New York newspapers have not mentioned. Kennedy is on in Illinois, and many candidates are on in Tennessee, and Chase Oliver is on the ballot in the other 47 states, along with many other presidential candidates in most cases. Oliver is not on in the District of Columbia either, but Kennedy is.
On September 10, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. filed a federal lawsuit against the Michigan Secretary of State, seeking to remove his name from the ballot. The state courts had ruled he could not withdraw. Kennedy v Benson, e.d., 2:24cv-12375. The case is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Denise R. Hood, a Clinton appointee.
Here is the Complaint.
On September 10, presidential elector candidates pledged to Shiva Ayyadurai filed a federal lawsuit against the Secretary of State of Tennessee. Although their independent presidential petition had enough valid signatures, the Secretary disqualified them because they say they are pledged to Ayyadurai, who was born in India.
The case is Lupo v Tennessee Secretary of State, m.d., 3:24cv-1088. It is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Waverly Crenshaw, an Obama appointee. Here is the Complaint.
