By ELYSE APEL | THE CENTER SQUARE and MUST READ ALASKA
The North Carolina State Board of Elections narrowly voted against a request to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the ballot, as has been requested. RFK Jr., formerly a Democrat, has suspended his campaign and has attempted to drop from swing state ballots, as he has now endorsed Donald Trump for president.
The board called the last-minute meeting on Thursday to consider removing the We the People party, which nominated Kennedy as its pick for the presidential election.
The meeting was heated, with the board split down party lines. Chairman Alan Hirsch, and members Jeff Carmon and Siobhan Millan, all Democrats, voted against striking Kennedy from the ballot, while Kevin Lewis and Stacy Eggers, both Republicans, voted to approve.
“The statutory deadline of Sept. 6 can’t be ignored just because of the capricious behavior of one party’s candidate, one party, one person,” Millan said in the meeting. “I’m just going to be real blunt and say I think this whole episode has been a farce, and I feel bad for anyone who’s been deceived.”
The decision follows a summer of controversy for the board, which included multiple lawsuits and a federal investigation.
In early July, the We the People party was first denied access to the ballot, a decision that was later reversed on July 16.
Kennedy announced his decision to suspend his presidential campaign on Aug. 23, less than 24 hours after the Democratic National Convention wrapped. In the press conference, he blamed “shadowy DNC operatives” for fighting his campaign’s access to the ballot at every turn in states across the country.
On Wednesday, We the People party officially requested that Kennedy be removed from their ticket in North Carolina.
Democrats on the board cited the “impracticality” of reprinting ballots as a key factor in their decision; mail-in ballots are supposed to be sent out in the state starting Sept. 6 and many counties have begun printing.
“The decision was made for us when the party didn’t remove him weeks ago,” Carmon said.
The Sept. 6 deadline makes North Carolina one of the first states in the nation to send out its ballots.
Kennedy also can’t get off the ballots of Michigan and Wisconsin, also swing states, after Democrat election officials made the decision in those states. The strategy appears to be to split the Trump vote so he cannot win the states electoral college votes. Kennedy has not been taken off of Alaska’s November ballot, where he is listed as a candidate who got onto the ballot via petition.
Alaska will use ranked-choice voting in November. There are seven presidential tickets who will be listed on the Alaska ballot, including Harris/Walz, Trump/Vance, Kennedy/Shanahan, Chase/Mike ter, West/Abdullah, Stein/Ware, and Terry/Broden.
Elyse Apel is an apprentice reporter with The Center Square, covering Georgia and North Carolina. She is a 2024 graduate of Hillsdale College.
The Democrats were fighting to keep Kennedy off the ballots until he suspended his campaign and endorsed Trump. Now they want him on the various state ballots. Just as Biden received all the Dem votes to nominate him as their candidate, then orchestrated a palace coup to remove him, installing the cackling hyena Harris as their nominee. Harris never so much as won a primary. Maintaining the narrative pretense that the US is a “democratic” nation has become transparently ridiculous and vicious.
I guess this just says that the communist/democrats are too lazy.
Easy to draw line through the ballots they have prefilled. Cross out the vote intended to give the optics of being siphoned from Trump to Robert. Darken in the oval for what’s her name. You know the one that didn’t receive one vote to be on the ballot.
The biggest hurdle there would to make sure they used the right color ink as used initially.
Dont expect anything less from Communist California as they mail out ballots to all illegal immigrants in exchange for gifts in the tax capital of the US who is leading the charge in debt from overspending the people’s money they dont even have.
This is stupid. It sets up the possibility of syphoning votes from Kamala.
Did they refuse to remove Joe Biden’s name too? If not, they are corrupt.
Why would Biden’s name have been on their general election ballot? Biden was never the Democrat presidential nominee, he dropped out after winning some primaries but before the DNC made their official choice two weeks ago. Whether you agree or not with the process the Democrats used to select Harris, Biden was never the official Democrat candidate, so he wouldn’t have been on any general election ballots.
But to your point about Kennedy being kept on the ballot due to purely political reasons yeah, that’s some complete BS.
Another Democrat trick. Why is it that the Democrats seem to resort only to tricks in modern day politics?
Just saw this excellent interview where RFK Jr’s running mate is describing how she is finally learning who the MAGA people really are since RFK Jr has teamed up with President Trump. She admits that her views of MAGA were always influenced by MSM.
‘https://x.com/robertdunlap947/status/1829112228684927246
The Democratic party couldn’t be less democratic.
so has Biden been removed from ballots in the same states that won’t let RFK remove? And if so what was the process?
This is not an accident. It is a well thought out and executed strategy. Democrat controlled boards of elections are keeping RFK Jr. on the ballot assuming that low information voters who neither like Harris; nor Trump, will cast their vote for RFK Jr. This only benefits Harris. It’s all part of the plan. If Republicans did this, all hell would be raised. It’s (D)ifferent when Democrats do it. And nothing will be done about it.
Are you kidding me? Sure this looks like a tactic to benefit Harris Walz, but by a million miles, the Republicans are the masters of deception. When republican policies lack merit, they turn to rigging the process. There’s tons of examples but their most devious strategy was on January 6. Not just the violent, domestic terrorist floor poopers usingAmerica’s flag to attack law enforcement, but trying to destroy the constitution with fake electors.
There is no end to Democrat stupidity.
Just proves more and more how corrupt the Dems are and how they have been on our elections for years and years…,Anyone who would vote for any Democrat at this point in our Country’s History is either Corruptmas
Hell, Mentally ill, or just flat out DUMB! The sad reality is about 40 percent of the American people are just that, and many others are just clueless people, Drones who wander through life not paying attention to what’s going on around them!
Ms. Apel’s story seems incomplete without some reference to options for prosecuting culpable North Carolina State Board of Elections officials for voter suppression, for civil rights violations pertaining to election law, and for acting under color of law to influence a federal election.
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Something on what top GOP officials intend to do about the problem would have been helpful also.
Apparently All Democrats/ marxists are crooked. Go figure. O ya and the last election wasn’t rigged ??