Wisconsin election officials: Kanye off presidential ballot

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https://apnews.com/a2a48ef3742bd15b81fb03d86584dbf1

Wisconsin election officials: Kanye off presidential ballot

By TODD RICHMOND

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin election officials decided Thursday to keep rapper Kanye West off the battleground state’s presidential ballot in November because his campaign turned his nomination papers moments after the deadline.

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West campaign attorney, Michael Curran, argued during a hearing before the commission that West campaign workers didn’t enter the commission’s building until 14 seconds after 5 p.m. on Aug. 5 but commission staff still accepted the papers, constituting a timely filing.

Commission staffer Cody Davies told the panel that the building was locked due to the coronavirus pandemic but he was waiting in the lobby to let filers in as 5 p.m. approached. He said West’s representatives called him at 4:57 p.m. and said they were three minutes away. He said he let them in 14 seconds after 5 p.m. and accompanied them on the elevator ride up to the commission’s offices. The group was still in the elevator 50 seconds past 5 p.m., he said.

Another commission staffer, Riley Willman, said he was in the commission’s lobby to accept papers. He said West’s representatives placed the papers on the counter one minute past 5 p.m. but had to organize them and he didn’t take possession until several minutes past 5 p.m.

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[bearsfootball516]

1. Awww

That's too bad.

[Cha]

2. Good On Wisconsin!

[CaptYossarian]

3. He may have drawn enough twisted GOP voters away from the cult leader.