Cornel West, the provocative, left-wing scholar, appeared via video in a federal courtroom in Pittsburgh on Monday seeking to have his name added to the Nov. 5 presidential ballot. West filed a complaint last month alleging discrimination against the Pennsylvania Department of State for blocking him from appearing on the
Too late. The deadline was February 13th.
https://ballotpedia.org/Ballot_access_for_presidential_candidates
The election is in 27 days, people are already voting. If you aren’t on the ballot by now, you’re not on the ballot.
Where are you seeing that it was in Feb? The ballotpedia you linked to said it was August 1st for PA.
So if it wasn’t for the “candidate affidavits” requirement he would have met the deadline. Basically he’s rather reasonably asking that the court declare that requirement illegal since it’s not equally applied, and then retroactively accept his papers.
It’s a fair enough deal. I don’t think it’d work as the reason it’s not required for the two big parties - those would obviously be able to get electors w/o issue. More likely the judge will just rule that Dems and GOP have to comply with this rule too (which is trivial for them to do so) and keep West off.
In the link I provided, the state by state chart, Pennsylvania has 2 lines, one for the Democratic party, one for “other qualified parties”, deadline date of February.
Thanks for the pointer, I see it now. Super helpful! Also worth calling out that the Dems had an earlier deadline that that still met easily so it’s not a good showing if this independent couldn’t get it in with a laxer deadline…
He’s just trying to keep his name in the news and get every nickel he can from the publicity.