Dr. Cornel West, the unbiased candidate working within the 2024 presidential election, certified for the poll in Virginia’s normal election, in line with a letter despatched to West’s marketing campaign by the Virginia Division of Elections.
“After overview, the Division of Elections has reconsidered its choice to not qualify Drs. West and Abdullah and their names will seem on the poll,” the letter reads of West and his working mate, Dr. Melina Abdullah.
The letter was completely obtained by CBS Information.
The West-Abdullah marketing campaign was beforehand denied poll entry by the Division of Elections after a problem with the required types required for submission within the commonwealth.
Sources inside West’s marketing campaign inform CBS Information this was as a result of challenges across the validity of their elector types.
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“The Division has confirmed that the marketing campaign did submit paperwork in April however was not made conscious of a brand new kind that may be required after July 1 relating to the electors’ citizenship and residency,” the letter states.
In an announcement to CBS Information, the West-Abdullah marketing campaign confirms they acquired the letter and can seem on the poll in Virginia.
“Virginia voters will now have the chance to decide on a candidate, Dr. Cornel West, who represents their values,” a spokesperson for the West-Abdullah marketing campaign stated.
West now joins former President Donald Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris, Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver, Impartial Claudia De la Cruz and Inexperienced Celebration candidate Jill Stein on the poll in Virginia.
Impartial candidate Robert F. Kennedy eliminated his identify from the poll within the Previous Dominion after he introduced he was suspending his marketing campaign and endorsing Trump.
The West-Abdullah marketing campaign has tried to realize poll entry in a number of battleground states.
Although Virginia shouldn’t be thought of a battleground state by CBS Information, the Trump marketing campaign has tried to place the commonwealth in play this cycle by holding a number of marketing campaign rallies there. President Biden received Virginia by 10 factors in 2020.
In addition to Virginia, West and Abdullah may even seem on the ballots of the battleground states of Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Georgia, and will probably have minor impacts on the end result of the presidential race.
The Arizona Secretary of State’s workplace stated that West did not file the required paperwork by the August deadline. In Nevada, the West-Abdullah marketing campaign missed the deadline to submit ample signatures.
The marketing campaign was denied poll entry in Pennsylvania after dropping a authorized problem, which discovered that 14 of West’s 19 presidential electors lacked the required affidavits.
“We have already confronted a destructive end result on the state stage, which is why we’re shifting ahead with a federal court docket grievance. Regardless of this, we’re not at ‘recreation over’ but in PA,” stated a spokesperson from the West-Abdullah marketing campaign. “We imagine the federal courts could present some reduction, as the present system unfairly burdens First Modification rights.”
