Georgia voters are likely to be able to choose from five candidates for president.
Progressive activist Cornel West speaks at a demonstration in Union Park outside the Democratic National Convention Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024, in Chicago. – Georgia voters are likely to be able to choose from five candidates for president after Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Thursday putby an administrative law judge that removed West and De la Cruz. West is running as an independent.
Democrats legally challenged West, De la Cruz, Kennedy and Stein, seeking to block candidates who could siphon votes from Harris after Joe Biden won Georgia by fewer than 12,000 votes in 2020.by the state Democratic Party that petitions for independent candidates must be filed in the name of the 16 presidential electors, and not the candidates themselves, citing a change made to Georgia law in 2017.
But Raffensperger, who makes the final decision, said one petition in De la Cruz's or West's name met the requirements of both state law and a 2016 court decision that limits the state to requiring only 7,500 signatures on a petition for statewide office.Georgia is one of several states where Democrats and allied groups have filed challenges to third-party and independent candidates. Republicans in Georgia intervened, seeking to keep all the candidates on the ballot.
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