Kanye West will not be eligible for the presidential ballot in the war-torn state of Wisconsin after missing the filing deadline, a judge ruled late Friday.
The decision was made by Brown County Circuit Judge John Zakowski, who ruled in favor of the Wisconsin Election Commission.
The West had filed a suit against the Election Commission over its earlier decision to bar him from voting, as his nomination papers were submitted 14 seconds after the 5 pm deadline on August 4.
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Cane West (pictured at a rally in South Carolina in July) is not fit to sit on the presidential ballot on the battlefield Wisconsin after missing a filing deadline, a judge ruled late Friday night.
In the case of the West, Zakowski ruled that the State Election Commission was correct in making the decision that the musician missed the deadline for filing a presidential ballot at the dead of evening.
The judge said the unfortunate fact is that the controversy could have been avoided if representatives from the West had arrived easier sooner.
‘Candidates are required to arrive on time and arrive on time and file papers in the commission office fee before the deadline, there is no exception under the law or the relevant case law.’
West argued that the deadline did not expire until 5.01pm and that regardless of the time, commission staff still accepted the papers. The commission voted that West had missed the deadline in a matter of minutes.
According to the lawsuit, commission employees should open the doors of the building at 40.40 pm to accommodate late night filers.
But since the outbreak of the ronavirus epidemic, the commission’s building has collapsed. Campaigners in West had to call a commission just before 5pm to unlock the door.
A commission staff member said representatives from the West did not place nomination papers on the counter until 5.01pm.
By the time these papers were sorted and officially accepted, it was several minutes past the 5 pm deadline.
The West sued the Election Commission over an earlier decision to bar him from voting because his candidacy was submitted in 14 seconds after the 5 p.m. deadline on Gust His, a voter picture in Wisconsin on September 9.
Prosecutors in the West did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
West announced the president’s bid in July, saying he was seeking the country’s top post on the ticket, which he called a ‘birthday party’.
Democrats claim Republican Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is pushing the West’s candidacy in swing states to siphon the black vote.
The decision is expected to be quickly appealed to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
That court held the mailing of absentee ballots on Thursday when it considered whether the Green Party’s presidential candidate should add Hawkins.
The delay is being closely watched in Wisconsin, the swing state that President Donald Trump won cautiously in 2016 and the polls show that re-election this year is tough.
The state law requires voters to send ballots to more than 10 million voters who have requests on file by Sept. 17. Federal law also has a Sept. 19 deadline for sending votes to foreign and military voters.
That time limit is set at વિ 3- by the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Can control, which can force action in days on who should be on the ballot.
The State Election Commission has argued that printing new ballot papers at this late stage is not only expensive, but can also bring ‘confusion and clutter’ and is not even possible.
Whether West and Hawkins are allowed on the ballet could have a significant impact in razor-wielding Wisconsin.
The Green Party’s 2016 presidential candidate, Jill Stein, won 31,006 votes in the state, 22,177 votes more than Trump’s Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Thousands of ballots from across the state have already been mailed or are being prepared to be sent, with the state Supreme Court pressing the pause button on Thursday.
The Election Commission did not have an exact count of how many ballots were sent.
September 17, is the deadline for clerks to send absent ballots to those who already have a request on file, after which anyone who requests will still be sent to the ballot.
The deadline for most voters to request a vote by mail is October 29. Returned ballots must be received by time poll at 8pm on election day.
Election officials are urging voters to return their ballots as soon as possible due to concerns over slow mail delivery and an unprecedented number of absent ballots.
State election officials estimate that more than 2 million of the state’s nearly 3 million eligible voters will cast absentee ballots, largely due to concerns about the coronavirus epidemic.
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