On August 27, the ballot-qualified Alliance Party of South Carolina revoked its nomination of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. See this story.
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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.
The Ninth Circuit expects to hold oral arguments in No Labels Party v Fontes, 24-563, in December 2024. This is the interesting lawsuit over whether a qualified party with its own primary has the Freedom of Association right to forbid anyone from filing in its primary. No Labels won this case in the U.S. District Court, and the state is appealing.
Here is a link to the Michigan Secretary of State’s list of candidates. For president, the nominees of six parties are on the ballot, along with two independent candidates. The two independents are Cornel West and Joseph Kishore, who is actually the Socialist Equality Party presidential nominee. The party is headquartered in Michigan.
The six party nominees are for the Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, Constitution, Green, and Natural Law Parties. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is the Natural Law nominee.
On August 26, a Georgia Administrative Law Judge removed Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Jill Stein, Cornel West, and Claudia De la Cruz from the ballot. See this story.
The administrative law judge said when presidential candidates seek to qualify by petition in Georgia, the true candidates are the candidates for presidential elector, and each elector needs his or her own petition.
He also said that Jill Stein can’t be on the ballot because it is impossible for her to prove that she is on the ballot in at least twenty other states or territories that have presidential electors. This seems absurd, and would nullify the new law that allows presidential candidates to be on if their party is on in at least 20 other jurisdictions.
The Secretary of State need not follow the Administrative Law Judge’s analysis. He is the decider. It seems unlikely that he would agree that petitions must be submitted for each presidential elector, because the Secretary of State already approved the form of the petition.