Friday, July 31, 2020

Kanye West Ballot Application Challenged in New Jersey


This week Kanye West's application to appear on the 2020 presidential election ballot in Illinois was challenged over the validity of some of its signatures [click here if you missed that].

Now signatures submitted with Yeezy's application for the New Jersey ballot are under scrutiny...

From The Daily Mail
Kanye West's petition to appear on New Jersey's ballot as a presidential candidate contained more 600 defective signatures, many of which had very similar writing, according to a formal complaint filed with the state Wednesday.
Election law attorney Scott Salmon, a registered Democrat, filed the objection with the state Division of Elections after reviewing the more than 1,300 signatures the rapper had submitted.
'Mr. West's petitions do not contain the valid signatures of 800 qualified voters and should have been rejected by the Division,' Salmon wrote.
The petition shows that a number of signatures appear nearly identical, including lower-case i's dotted with a small circle. Some signatures lack complete addresses.