MADISON, WI (WSAU) – The Wisconsin Supreme Court has made a decision on whether or not they will hear legal arguments regarding a challenge by the Democratic National Committee to remove Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein from the state’s ballot.
According to Scott Baur of the Associated Press, the high court has declined without explanation to take the DNC’s legal challenge that was brought last week by Deputy Operations Director David Strange, saying in an unsigned order, “We determine that the petitioner is not entitled to the relief he seeks.”
Strange contended in the filing to the Court that the Green Party is ineligible to propose presidential electors in Wisconsin because it does not have any legislative candidates or state officeholders who are qualified to do so.
The Wisconsin Green Party co-chair, Michael White, praised the court’s decision to dismiss the complaint, calling Strange’s attempt to remove Stein in a statement to the AP a “mark of fear by the Democratic Party.”
Stein last appeared on the Wisconsin ballot in 2016, when she received slightly more than 31,000 votes, surpassing Trump’s winning margin of slightly less than 23,000 votes. During this election cycle, the latest polling data from Rasmussen shows Harris and Trump separated by just one percentage point in Wisconsin, while Navigator Research found in their latest poll that the two candidates are currently tied in the Badger State, with former Independent candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. and Stein combining to take 8% of the vote.
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