The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from Nevada’s Green Party seeking to include presidential candidate Jill Stein on the ballot in the battleground state.

The court’s order Friday, without any noted dissents, allows ballot preparation and printing to proceed in Nevada without Stein and other Green Party candidates included.

The outcome is a victory for Democrats who had challenged the Greens’ inclusion on the ballot in a state with a history of extremely close statewide races. In 2020, President Joe Biden outpaced former President Donald Trump by fewer than 35,000 votes in the state.

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    Nevada uses two forms for gathering signatures, one for candidates and another for ballot initiatives. The Secretary of State gave the Green Party the wrong form. The forms are basically identical.

    It is not the first time Democrats has used dubious methods to deprive Green Party ballot access.

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      The Green party was represented at the Supreme Court by Jay Sekulow, a Trump ally who was part of the president’s legal team during his first impeachment trial.

      Yeah sure, it’s the Democrats who are being dubious here…

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        And that is followed by

        Across the country, a network of Republican political operatives, lawyers and their allies is trying to shape November’s election in ways that favor Trump. Their goal is to prop up third-party candidates, including Stein and Cornel West who offer liberal voters an alternative that could siphon away support from Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee.

        Not Democratic party malfeasance.

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        It is - the wrong forms were disbursed and then rejected while all the actual requirements were fulfilled.

        This is clearly anti-democratic and unlikely to have any actual effect on the election outside making Democrats look bad.

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          This is clearly anti-democratic and unlikely to have any actual effect on the election outside making Democrats look bad.

          No. If it reflects negatively on anyone it would be the Nevada and US courts, the Nevada official who handed out the paperwork, and of course the Stein operation for not catching it. The last two have the capacity to catch this. Not the Democratic party.

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          And no one in the Green Party looked at the forms to make sure they had the right ones? How many people handled those forms without noticing they were wrong? Are they too used to Cyrillic that it’s hard to read English forms?

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              Having read the forms necessary to get a candidate or initiative on the ballot, I can tell you they are not hard to tell apart if you actually read them. A campaign that is serious about their stated goals would do the basic work of reading the form.

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                  Apologies, but I was reading them in person so I don’t have links to them. Maybe try on the website for the secretary of state in Nevada?

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        They were given the wrong forms when they requested the correct ones - the two forms are nearly indistinguishable and neither the issuer nor collector noticed the mistake at the time.

        This was a really minor bureaucratic screw up and denying the green party a place on the ballot because of the mistake is just a bad look.

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            Given the news currently brewing in Georgia we can expect some similar bureaucratic bullshit to be used against the Harris campaign - it’ll be bullshit just like this is bullshit.

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              You know these people have lawyers, right? It’s literally a lawyer’s job to go over these documents with a fine-toothed comb specifically due to these sort of things.

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                I don’t think running for elected office should require a team of high paid lawyers - president in our current system is unrealistic for any person off the street but part of the reason we have AOC today is because the election registration process is accessible to people who have limited resources but a lot of enthusiasm.

                Forms like this shouldn’t require the fine toothed comb.

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                  You don’t think this shit happens to people after they become president too? I’m sorry, if this was political dirty tricks and you can’t handle really basic political dirty tricks, you deserve what you get.

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                  Yes? And? This is about a campaign, not the people who vote for them. Maybe you want a president who can be tricked by something this easy, but I’d say most people would want a president who can avoid such simple pitfalls.

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          Every legal form has a form number. Anyone practicing law should know what number they require and verify if it’s incorrect. Her legal team shit the bed

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      So the party that wants to have the responsibility of running the most powerful nation in the world didn’t double check the title of the paperwork they submitted?

      This isn’t a normal person getting the wrong tax form in the mail and not noticing it. This is an entire party with nationwide offices and tons of people supporting it failing to recognize they were filling out the wrong form.

      The more important question is, “when did they submit the paperwork and when were they notified that the paperwork was incorrect?” If the gap is really small, then they should have filed sooner. If the gap was really long, then maybe there was some fuckery going on.

      EDIT - That said, I still hate when minor technicalities thwart important things.

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        Yeah, except that they did double check. That’s fairly clear if you go back and read what happened when. You can argue that they should have triple checked or checked with different people, if you want to.

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      The Secretary of State gave the Green Party the Green Party the wrong form

      LMFAO at trying to blame a secretary of state for a very old and experienced political party using the wrong damn form