Dems Push For Green Party’s Jill Stein To Be Removed From Ballot In Vital Swing State

A Democratic National Committee member filed a complaint on Wednesday seeking to have Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein removed from the general election ballot in Wisconsin.

The complaint alleges that the Green Party can’t nominate presidential electors in Wisconsin and argues that without electors, the Green Party is ineligible to have a candidate on the ballot, the Associated Press reported. Stein was on the ballot in Wisconsin as the Green Party’s candidate in the 2016 election and received more than 31,000 votes. Former President Donald Trump beat Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016 by just under 23,000 votes, resulting in some Democrats blaming Stein for Trump’s victory in the swing state.

The DNC complaint alleges that the Green Party does not have a person who is qualified to nominate electors under state law, which says that those who nominate electors must be current state officers or candidates for the state legislature.

“We take the nomination process for President and Vice President very seriously and believe every candidate should follow the rules,” senior adviser to the DNC Adrienne Watson said in a statement. “Because the Wisconsin Green Party hasn’t fielded candidates for legislative or statewide office and doesn’t have any current incumbent legislative or statewide office holders, it cannot nominate candidates and should not be on the ballot in November.”

The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled in 2020 that the Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins could not be added to the presidential election ballot. The court argued that putting him on the ballot in September after many mail-in ballots had been sent out because of the COVID pandemic would “create a substantial possibility of confusion among voters who had already received, and possibly returned, the original ballots.” Joe Biden beat Trump in Wisconsin by just over 20,000 votes, a slim margin that could have been significantly affected by a Green Party candidate on the ballot.

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A Democrat-backed group petitioned a judge to have Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removed from New York’s 2024 ballot and succeeded. Earlier this week, the New York judge ruled that Kennedy should not appear on the state’s ballot, arguing that the independent candidate falsely stated that he was a New York resident on his nominating petitions when he is a resident of California, according to the AP.

Kennedy appealed the ruling, stating, “The Democrats are showing contempt for democracy. They aren’t confident they can win at the ballot box, so they are trying to stop voters from having a choice. We will appeal and we will win.”