A former Congressional candidate in New Jersey is challenging Kanye West
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Scott Salmon, a Democratic attorney who ran for Congress in 2018, sent a letter to the state’s Elections Division questioning the validity of West’s petition signatures, Politico reported Wednesday.
West filed 1,327 petition signatures Monday with New Jersey, which was significantly more than the 800 required to secure a place on the ballot.
However, Salmon claimed they were “terribly bad, almost to some extent insulting.”
He told the news outlet that the signatures on West’s petition include dozens of people in a row whose letter looks similar, including including small circles above the letter I in their names.
“The odds that 30 people in a row from across the state will have a little circle on the Is is a little hard to believe,” he said.
West, who named his address as Cody, Wyo., Was one of seven independent candidates to run for New Jersey.
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– Scott Salmon (@VoteSalmon) July 29, 2020
The rapper, who grew up in Chicago, also faces a petition challenge in Illinois, where three objections were reportedly raised with the state board of elections.
West submitted 412 pages of signature sheets just four minutes before the deadline, Illinois State Board of Elections public information officer Matt Dietrich said in a statement to The Hill last week.
Request sheets generally contain 10 names per sheet. Not all lines on the pages West sent are full, according to Dietrich, and election officials will need to certify that he received at least 2,500 signatures.
The artist made his candidacy announcement on July 4 at the end of the electoral cycle, with little more than 120 days until the day of the elections. Candidates register with the Federal Election Commission to release their campaign financial information, but they need to register in each state to be included on the ballot.
So far, he has missed the deadline to appear on ballots in several states, including North Carolina, New Mexico, Texas, Michigan, Florida and Indiana. The next submission deadline is for New York on Thursday.
West did not submit any of the 10,000 petition signatures necessary to appear on the presidential ballot in South Carolina before the deadline, despite having held a statewide campaign rally the day before.
Made headlines for her bizarre and carefree speech in which she claimed that renowned abolitionist and activist Harriet Tubman “never actually freed slaves, she simply made them work for other white people.”
The rapper said he had never voted in his life, but that if he becomes president, he plans to run the White House in the image of Wakanda, the fictional African country secret in “Black Panther.”
“Let’s see if the designation is in 2020 or if it is 2024, because God appoints the president. If I win in 2020, it was God’s appointment. If I win in 2024, that was God’s quote, “West told Forbes.
The rapper, married to the reality star Kim Kardashian West, received 2 percent of the vote in a national presidential poll conducted by Redfield & Wilton Strategies after its announcement.
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