The Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules the Green Party presidential ticket will not be included on the state's general election ballot this year.
The move Thursday comes three days after the Wisconsin Supreme Court similarly decided Howie Hawkins and his running mate, Angela Walker, would not beAccording to the Pennsylvania ruling, Hawkins and Walker were disqualified from appearing on the ballot because"procedures for nominating a candidate for office by nomination papers were not strictly followed.
Green Party gubernatorial candidate, Howie Hawkins, takes part in a debate sponsored by the League of Women Voters at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, N.Y., Nov. 1, 2018. The state Supreme Court ruled Sept. 17, 2020, that Hawkins, the Green Party's candidate for president, did not strictly follow procedures for getting on Pennsylvania's ballot for the November election and cannot appear on it.
"We're ready to send ballots out when the state certifies them ... we keep telling people at the end of September, we'll begin mailing them, that's what we anticipated," she said. "Courts in Pennsylvania have been very, very good about expediting any cases that have to do with an election ballot," Wanda Murren, the Pennsylvania Department of State's communication director said in a"They totally understand what the counties are up against, and all of the many, many processes that need to be carried out," she added.
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