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Kanye West’s Presidential Campaign Is Both Proceeding and Unraveling
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Aug 21, 2020 10:49pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Ben Jacobs |
| News Date | Saturday, August 22, 2020 02:40:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The last 48 hours have presented a series of new challenges for Kanye West’s haphazard campaign for president.
In a span of two days, West was booted from the ballot in five states: Illinois, Montana, Ohio, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. In Illinois, Montana, and West Virginia, it was because he filed an insufficient number of valid signatures. In Wisconsin, it was because West did not file on time. In Ohio, the information and signature on West’s nominating petition and his statement of candidacy did not match those on petitions circulated to be signed.
West has filed in several other states in this week: Louisiana, Minnesota, Tennessee, and Virginia, but it is unclear if he will ultimately qualify to appear on the ballot in all of them.
West may face particular issues in Virginia, where seven of the thirteen electors that West submitted told Intelligencer they were either unaware that they signed up to cast electoral votes on his behalf, or that they had signed notarized paperwork connected to the rapper’s presidential bid at all.
“Is this a joke?, one of the electors, Ilisa Stillman, asked when reached by Intelligencer. “Holy guacamole,” she replied when informed it was not. “I’m certainly not supporting Kanye West,” she made clear before ending the conversation. |
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