On August 22, the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that an initiative should not be on the statewide ballot, because the”paid canvasser training certificates” were submitted separately, on a rolling basis, instead of all being turned in when the petition was turned in. Cowles v Thurston, cv-24-455. See the opinion here.
The subject of the initiative relates to abortion.
The Florida deadline for parties to certify their nominees has passed. The Natural Law Party, which is ballot-qualified, had nominated him in Florida. However, when the party submitted its presidential elector candidates to the state, it neglected to include the voter registration number of each of the elector candidates, and it is too late to fix the omission.
On August 27, the Wisconsin Elections Commission voted 5-1 to reject a Democratic Party challenge to the ballot listing of Cornel West. The challengers had said there was a fatal flaw in the notarization of the vice-presidential candidate’s declaration of candidacy. She had signed in the wrong line. However a revised declaration had been promptly filed to replace the first one. The challengers said the revision was not stapled to the first one and therefore it was fatally flawed, but the Commission did not feel that was reason to keep the ticket off the ballot.
On August 27, the ballot-qualified Alliance Party of South Carolina revoked its nomination of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. See this story.
In 2024, two Muslims are running for vice-president on tickets that will be on the ballot in at least ten states. This marks the first time that Muslims have been on national tickets, at least those with a fairly substantial campaign.
They are Rudolph “Butch” Ware, for the Green Party; and Melina Abdullah, for the Justice for All Party, which is running Cornel West for president.
By coincidence, they are both Californians.
