Court denies request to force count of votes for Green Party's Jill Stein in Ohio
Source: AP
Updated 11:07 PM EDT, November 1, 2024
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Votes cast for Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein in Ohio will not be counted despite her name appearing on the states ballot in Tuesdays election after an appeals court panel denied her motion seeking to force the election chief to tally them.
The three-judge panel on the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday against her request for an injunction targeting Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose on Friday in a dispute over the person listed as her running mate on the ballot.
Stein filed as an independent presidential candidate in Ohio because the Green Party lost state recognition several years ago. She listed Anita Rios the partys 2014 nominee for governor as a placeholder running mate until Butch Ware was nominated at the national convention Aug. 17.
Wares nomination happened after an Aug. 12 state administrative deadline for replacing an independent vice presidential candidate, according to elections officials. Roses office granted a request to remove Rios name but said Ware could not be added. It then notified the Stein campaign later that month that her votes would not count despite her remaining on the ballot.
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50 Shades Of Blue
(10,897 posts)4lbs
(7,395 posts)She's a "doctor". She can afford it, right?
Owl
(3,706 posts)kimbutgar
(23,451 posts)Dumpy
(41 posts)How is not counting her votes good? Is this just to discredit her and say she got zero votes, when in reality she got some none zero number.
groundloop
(12,332 posts)not fooled
(6,086 posts)were at the Green Party's national convention? To keep tabs on their Harris stalking horse.
They might have outnumbered actual Green Party members.
Marthe48
(19,158 posts)vote for stein
TomSlick
(11,946 posts)All that does is keep us from knowing what damage Stein does.