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Democrats and republicans work together to impede third parties from running in Georgia (lemmy.ml)
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[–] capital@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

“But the defect that prevents independent presidential candidates West and De la Cruz from appearing on Georgia’s ballot does not pertain to the number of signatures acquired; it is that West’s electors and De la Cruz’s electors filed no nomination petitions at all,” Warren wrote

https://apnews.com/article/georgia-election-cornel-west-cruz-ballot-access-7e819ec5e06925e88bc36a20b0d69526

This is who you want representing you? They couldn’t even properly get started, seemly because of a misunderstanding of the law.

I also find this quite telling:

A spokesperson for West’s campaign urged voters to still choose him even though such ballots wouldn’t be counted.

You had no chance before though third party voters don’t like to admit it. Now you literally have no chance in hell and yet you still want to siphon votes. Hmm.