A Georgia state court judge has disqualified independent presidential candidate Cornel West from running for president in the state.
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A ruling was also expected late Wednesday on whether Claudia De la Cruz could stay on Georgia ballots. The nominee for the Party of Socialism and Liberation technically qualified for the Georgia ballot as an independent, but Democrats have argued she should be excluded for the same reason that applied to West.
Wednesday's ruling was the latest turn in the on-again, off-again saga of ballot access for independent and third-party candidates in Georgia. An, and the Georgia Green Party from the ballot. But Raffensperger, who gets the last word in such matters, overruled the judge, and said West and De la Cruz should get access., Stein should go on Georgia ballots because the national Green Party had qualified her in at least 20 other states.
Cox dismissed the Democratic challenge to Stein's inclusion on Wednesday. He wrote that Raffensperger “has a clear legal duty to allow the Unified Green Party to qualify candidates for presidential elector and to allow those candidates access to the Nov. 4, 2024 General Election ballot." If Democrats want to contest the issue further, they should do so before an administrative law judge, Cox wrote.
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