Officials in the key swing state of North Carolina rejected a request to have Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removed from presidential ballots in the state.
“The State Board of Elections on Thursday rejected a request from the We The People Party to remove its nominee, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., from the general election ballot, because it would not be practical to reprint ballots that have already been printed and meet the state law deadline to start absentee voting,” the North Carolina Board of Elections wrote in a press release on Thursday.
The press release said that the We The People Party previously sent a request to the state’s board of elections to have Kennedy removed as he recently suspended his presidential campaign.
“The State Board scheduled an emergency meeting for Thursday to consider the request. A majority of the Board determined it was too late in the process to change course and prepare and print new ballots across the state,” the …