A Michigan judge overturned a decision Saturday that blocked independent candidate Cornel West from appearing on the state’s ballot.
Michigan Court of Claims Judge James Robert Redford said in an order on Saturday that the Michigan Bureau of Elections must qualify West and his running mate for the ballot if they’ve submitted enough valid signatures. He wrote that Michigan’s secretary of state and the director of the Bureau of Elections “misapplied the law in finding otherwise.”
The Michigan Bureau of Elections director had notified West’s campaign earlier this month that West was disqualified from the ballot due to “defects in the notarization” of his affidavit of identity (AOI), according to the order. The order said that the AOIs filed “cannot serve as a mechanism to exclude them from the ballot.”…