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.

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.

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.