Alternative view - it sounds like it may be that the different levels of the Green party were not communicating with each other properly. So a minor staffer misunderstood and made a mistake with seriously grave consequences.

Since that technically means it’s the Green party’s mistake (even if it’s the local Ohio Greens rather than Stein’s national group) I’d hold up less hope of a win.

Though after seeing what happened in Nevada, I might just be a tad too pessimistic… sometimes it really does feel like the system is rigged.

But regardless, that doesn’t mean Stein is incompetent or that Stein did anything wrong. At most, there might be an opportunity here to better manage the different local party chapters to prevent mistakes of this nature from happening. It goes to AOC’s point about the need to build up a better grassroots - closer communication with the Ohio chapter might have been enough to prevent this tragic mistake from happening.