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Re: Green Party's Jill Stein will remain on Wisconsin ballot after court refuses to hear challenge

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On 30 Aug 2024, super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> posted some
news:vathbn$lv7s$1@dont-email.me: 

> On 2024-08-30 22:04:32 +0000, Mittens Romney said:
> 
>> Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
>>> https://apnews.com/article/jill-stein-wisconsin-president-ballot-2024
>>> - e8cb52080dc7ba32997642e962dc0b06
>>> 
>>> MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein
>>> will remain on the ballot in the crucial swing state of Wisconsin
>>> after the state Supreme Court decided on Monday not to hear a
>>> Democratic challenge seeking to oust her.
>>> 
>>> Democrats are concerned that third-party candidates could draw votes
>>> away from Vice President Kamala Harris and help Republican Donald
>>> Trump win Wisconsin. The presence of independent and third party
>>> candidates on the ballot could be a deciding factor in a state where
>>> four of the last six presidential elections have been decided by
>>> between 5,700 votes and about 23,000 votes.
>>> 
>>> The court decided against hearing the challenge brought by David
>>> Strange, an employee of the Democratic National Committee, who
>>> sought to oust Stein from the ballot. The court did not explain its
>>> reasoning. 
>>> 
>>> “We determine that the petitioner is not entitled to the relief he
>>> seeks,” the court said in its unsigned order.
>>> 
>>> Strange argued that the Green Party can’t nominate presidential
>>> electors in Wisconsin because the party does not have any state
>>> officeholders or legislative candidates authorized to nominate
>>> presidential electors. 
>>> 
>>> The Green Party and Republicans countered that the party met all of
>>> its legal requirements and that Stein should be allowed to remain on
>>> the ballot.
>>> 
>>> Stein praised the decision, saying the Green Party “beat back the
>>> DNC’s attack.”
>>> 
>>> “Today justice prevailed,” she said in a statement.
>>> 
>>> Michael White, co-chair of the Wisconsin Green Party, called the
>>> complaint a “mark of fear by the Democratic Party” and said the
>>> attention generated by it had motivated Stein backers.
>>> 
>>> “It was an inevitable conclusion because the complaint had no
>>> merit to begin with and we knew that,” he said.
>>> 
>>> Democratic National Committee spokesperson Adrienne Watson called
>>> the decision “disappointing” and said the Green Party should not
>>> be on the ballot.
>>> 
>>> Stein last appeared on the Wisconsin ballot 2016, when she won just
>>> over 31,000 votes — more than Trump’s winning margin of just
>>> under 23,000 votes. Some Democrats have blamed her for helping Trump
>>> win the state and the presidency that year.
>>> 
>>> Strange had challenged a Wisconsin Elections Commission decision in
>>> February to grant the Green Party ballot access. The commission did
>>> so because a candidate from the party won more than 1% of the vote
>>> in a statewide race in 2022, meeting a requirement under the law.
>>> Sheryl McFarland got nearly 1.6% of the vote while finishing last in
>>> a four-way race for secretary of state.
>>> 
>>> The Wisconsin Elections Commission is scheduled to meet Tuesday to
>>> certify which candidates can appear on the ballot. Democrats are
>>> also challenging the placement of independent candidate Cornel West
>>> on the ballot. A Republican National Committee employee is
>>> challenging independent Shiva Ayyadurai’s candidacy.
>>> 
>>> The Wisconsin Supreme Court kept Green Party presidential candidate
>>> Howie Hawkins off the ballot in 2020 after the elections commission
>>> deadlocked on whether he filed proper nominating signatures.
>>> 
>>> 
>> Joke is on them I believe, she will draw only commies/dems.
> 
> Last time fascists/repugs helped put Kanye on the ballot and they
> still lost the state.

Only because voting regulations were illegally modified and periods 
extended using COVID as an excuse.

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