The Florida Reform Party, which had nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for president, has withdrawn Kennedy’s name from the ballot, at Kennedy’s request. Kennedy does not want to be on the ballot in swing states.
The seven presidential candidates who are on the Florida ballot are the nominees of the Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, Green, Constitution, American Solidarity, and Socialism & Liberation Parties.
On August 27, the Nevada Democratic Party and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. settled the lawsuit that had been filed to keep him off the ballot. The judge signed an agreement in which the Democratic case is dismissed “with prejudice”, which means that if it were to be filed again, the assumption would be that it had already lost.
In exchange, Kennedy withdrew from the Nevada ballot, which he had been wanting to do anyway. Otherwise it would have been too late for him to withdraw. Nevada is considered a swing state, and Kennedy doesn’t want to be on the ballot in swing states.
The Democratic challenge had claimed that Kennedy couldn’t be an independent in Nevada, because he is a minor party nominee in certain other states. That challenge was exceedingly weak because a presidential election technically is 51 separate elections for presidential electors, and the 51 separate elections have nothing to do with each other. Furthermore every presidential candidate running outside the two major parties who had polled at least 25,000 votes nationwide has always used a mixture of methods to get on the ballot. And no court had ever ruled that a presidential candidate can’t be on the ballot in one state because of his or her activity in another state. The Nevada case was Rockefeller v Aguilar, First Judicial District, 24 OC 00011.
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.
