On August 16, the Wisconsin Elections Commission dismissed a complaint filed by Democrats that tried to keep Jill Stein off the ballot. The basis was a technicality. But Democrats say they will now sue to block Stein. See this story.
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The Green Party holds its presidential convention on August 17, Saturday. Although it seems obvious that Jill Stein will be the presidential nominee, the identity of the likely vice-presidential nominee is tough to predict.
On August 16, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey, who had been re-elected as a Democrat in 2018, withdrew his name from the November 2024 ballot. He had been running as an independent candidate this year.
On August 16, the New Jersey State Supreme Court refused to hear Ayyadurai v New Jersey State Democratic Committee. This is the lawsuit filed by independent presidential candidate Shiva Ayyadurai to get on the ballot. He has enough valid signatures but he is being barred because he was born in India, although he has lived in the United States since the age of seven.
Here is his fiing, which argues several points, including the fact that the true candidates are presidential elector candidates and they are qualified; and New Jersey precedent, in which five times in the past, New Jersey did print the names of minor party or independent candidates for president or vice-president on the ballot even though they were under age 35. There are other arguments as well.
On August 16, the Michigan Secretary of State ruled that independent presidential candidate Cornel West should be removed from the ballot, even though he has enough valid signatures. The Secretary of State says his declaration of candidacy was not notarized properly. See this story.