Minnesota Supreme Court: Trump will be on ballots, despite DFL objections
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune?
Donald Trump's name will be on Minnesota ballots this November, following a Monday ruling by the Minnesota Supreme Court.
In a decision issued Monday afternoon, the state's highest court dismissed a petition filed last week by the state DFL Party in which DFL leaders argued that Republican presidential candidate Trump and his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, should not be listed on the ballot because Republicans had not properly selected alternate electors.
The DFL argued that Secretary of State Steve Simon should not have accepted the GOP's "certificate of nomination" for Trump and Pence because Republicans had missed one required step at its convention last spring: selecting 10 alternate electors for the presidential race. GOP leaders selected the electors in August, after discovering the problem, but state law requires that the selection be made at political parties' conventions.
But in its six-page decision, the Supreme Court dismissed the DFL complaint, saying the party waited too long to raise its objections to the Republicans' technical error. DFL leaders had argued that they waited until Sept. 8 to file their petition — needed time to investigate the problem after it was discovered in late August — about two weeks before the start of early voting — because they needed time to investigate the issue.
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