The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from Nevada’s Green Party seeking to include presidential candidate Jill Stein on the ballot in the battleground state.

The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from Nevada’s Green Party seeking to include presidential candidate Jill Stein on the ballot in the battleground state.

The court’s order Friday, without any noted dissents, allows ballot preparation and printing to proceed in Nevada without Stein and other Green Party candidates included.

The outcome is a victory for Democrats who had challenged the Greens’ inclusion on the ballot in a state with a history of extremely close statewide races. In 2020, President Joe Biden outpaced former President Donald Trump by fewer than 35,000 votes in the state.

  • Blackbeard@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    779·
    2 months ago

    The Green party was represented at the Supreme Court by Jay Sekulow, a Trump ally who was part of the president’s legal team during his first impeachment trial.

    Yeah sure, it’s the Democrats who are being dubious here…

    • rhythmisaprancer@moist.catsweat.com
      546·
      2 months ago

      And that is followed by

      Across the country, a network of Republican political operatives, lawyers and their allies is trying to shape November’s election in ways that favor Trump. Their goal is to prop up third-party candidates, including Stein and Cornel West who offer liberal voters an alternative that could siphon away support from Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee.

      Not Democratic party malfeasance.

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
      1851·
      2 months ago

      It is - the wrong forms were disbursed and then rejected while all the actual requirements were fulfilled.

      This is clearly anti-democratic and unlikely to have any actual effect on the election outside making Democrats look bad.

      • rhythmisaprancer@moist.catsweat.com
        242·
        2 months ago

        This is clearly anti-democratic and unlikely to have any actual effect on the election outside making Democrats look bad.

        No. If it reflects negatively on anyone it would be the Nevada and US courts, the Nevada official who handed out the paperwork, and of course the Stein operation for not catching it. The last two have the capacity to catch this. Not the Democratic party.

      • Glytch@lemmy.world
        114·
        2 months ago

        And no one in the Green Party looked at the forms to make sure they had the right ones? How many people handled those forms without noticing they were wrong? Are they too used to Cyrillic that it’s hard to read English forms?

        • blazera@lemmy.worldEnglish
          611·
          2 months ago

          They did make sure, by seeking guidance from the person that runs the election.

          • Glytch@lemmy.world
            84·
            2 months ago

            Having read the forms necessary to get a candidate or initiative on the ballot, I can tell you they are not hard to tell apart if you actually read them. A campaign that is serious about their stated goals would do the basic work of reading the form.

            • blazera@lemmy.worldEnglish
              310·
              2 months ago

              I havent been able to find them forms yet, do you have links to Nevada’s?

              • Glytch@lemmy.world
                41·
                2 months ago

                Apologies, but I was reading them in person so I don’t have links to them. Maybe try on the website for the secretary of state in Nevada?