On August 27 the Wisconsin Election Commission considered Robert F. Kennedy, Jr’s request to withdraw from the Wisconsin ballot. The three Republican Commissioners voted in favor of his request, but it was defeated on a tie vote when the three Democratic Commissioners voted against his request. See this story.
On August 27, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. withdrew from the Maine ballot. This seems puzzling, because Maine uses ranked choice voting for president. See this story.
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.
