WASHINGTON − Impartial presidential candidate Cornel West has requested the Supreme Court to make Pennsylvania polling websites let voters know they will write in his title on Election Day.
West filed that emergency request days earlier than Tuesday’s election after failing to get on the poll within the battleground state.
West is extra seemingly to attract votes away from Vice President Kamala Harris than from former President Donald Trump.
Pennsylvania’s prime courtroom backed the secretary of state’s determination that West lacked the required affidavits for many of his presidential electors so was ineligible.
When West sought assist from the federal courts, U.S. District Decide J. Nicholas Ranjan mentioned the principles seem to deliberately make it tougher for third-party candidates to get on the poll. However Ranjan mentioned it was too near the election to intervene.
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An appeals courtroom additionally rejected West’s request for assist.
West, a thinker, activist, and writer, instructed the Supreme Courtroom it must step in so Pennsylvania election officers cannot keep away from accountability by working out the clock.
Though Pennsylvanians are already voting, West mentioned he nonetheless has a constitutional proper to be chosen by the thousands and thousands of residents who will vote Tuesday.
The associated fee to the state of rapidly posting notices about his candidacy at each polling station, he instructed the courtroom, is an inexpensive worth for to pay for violating his rights “and dragging this dispute to the purpose the place emergency aid is critical.”
West requests that the courtroom challenge such an order by Friday.
