• ccunning@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    From the article, this is a little oddly worded:

    The judges determined ballot access petitions needed to be filed in the name of 16 presidential electors, not the candidates themselves.

    This AP article makes it a bit more clear:

    Presidential candidates Cornel West and Claudia De la Cruz are disqualified from running for president in Georgia, two state court judges ruled Wednesday, saying that their electors didn’t file the proper paperwork.

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      Wednesday’s rulings were the latest turn in the on-again, off-again saga of ballot access for independent and third-party candidates in Georgia. An administrative law judge disqualified West, De la Cruz, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the Georgia Green Party from the ballot. But Raffensperger, who gets the last word in such matters, overruled the judge, and said West and De la Cruz should get access.

      Raffensperger also ruled that under a new Georgia law, Stein should go on Georgia ballots because the national Green Party had qualified her in at least 20 other states.

      Georgia is one of several states where Democrats and allied groups have filed challenges to third-party and independent candidates. [1]


      1. [1] https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/judge-disqualifies-cornel-west-running-president-georgia-113604500 ↩︎