Posted on 09/08/2024 12:22:48 AM PDT by Enterprise
Independent candidate Cornel West was cleared to be on the Virginia presidential ballot after the state reversed its decision on Friday.
In a letter to West’s campaign, the Virginia Department of Elections said it “reconsidered” its decision to bar West from the ballot and now he and Melina Abdullah, his running mate, will be on the ballot in November.
The Virginia Department of Elections previously denied West due to a problem with forms required for submission in the state. West’s campaign told CBS News it was due to challenges on the validity of their elector forms.
“The Department has confirmed that the campaign did submit paperwork in April but was not made aware of a new form that would be required after July 1 regarding the electors’ citizenship and residency,” the letter said.
The reversal from Virginia comes nearly two weeks after West secured a legal victory in a case over his ballot eligibility in Michigan, a key battleground state. In that case, Michigan Court of Claims Judge James Redford ruled that the state erred in disqualifying West from the ballot after it had cited technical problems with the candidate’s petition.
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Bfl
No justice, no peace!
And No RFK Jr on the ballot in Virginia.
Interesting,
Cornel West is without doubt an intelligent man. I doubt we agree about many issues, but in a sense he is the anti-Kamala.
Send him $10 like I did. Do the same for Hogan.
How is this expected to impact the election in VA?
The hope is that he will take votes away from Kamala.
Works for me.
Kind of like Malcolm X. There’s a lot of things he said I agree with, especially about how white liberals are the real enemy of black people.
I worked with a black woman who had a framed photo of Cornell West in her cubicle. . Perhaps she was related to him…
Melina Abdullah
or
Anita Medulla
Maybe she and West were of the same tribe that Kamala's ancestors owned in Jamaica.
What does he get from this? I can’t believe he gets enough votes to make any difference.
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