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Map Shows States Where Jill Stein Is on 2024 Ballot [1]
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Date: 2024-08-27 08:37:30-04:00
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein is currently celebrating being allowed to remain on the ballot in Wisconsin; here is everywhere else her name is set to appear.
Stein will be on the ballot in Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington and West Virginia, according to Ballotpedia's most-recent update.
She will also be on the ballot in Montana, Utah, Nevada, Alaska, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Maine, Maryland and Missouri, Stein's campaign manager Jason Call told Newsweek.
Meanwhile, the Green Party is on the ballot in Mississippi, South Carolina and Hawaii.
The reason for why Stein is on the ballot in some states and the Green Party is on in others is because of ballot access procedures.
Call said: "In states where the Green Party did not have automatic ballot access we had to do petitioning. In some cases we could petition as a Green Party candidate and in some we had to petition as an independent."
Stein's campaign team told Newsweek: "We expect to have 40 ballot lines when all is said and done (this includes DC), with eight write-ins (including NY and IL), and three states where we will not be available to voters (IN, OK, SD). A number of these states are yet to be determined—signatures have been submitted and are being verified, and two states (KY and RI) we are still actively petitioning in."
On Monday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court reject an attempt by Democratic National Committee (DNC) official David Strange to knock Stein off the state's ballot this year.
Strange said that the Green Party should not be allowed to nominate presidential electors in Wisconsin because it does not have any state officeholders or legislative candidates to nominate these presidential electors. However, the court ruled that "the petitioner is not entitled to the relief he seeks."
Michael White, co-chair of the Wisconsin Green Party, said the complaint was a "mark of fear by the Democratic Party."
Adrienne Watson, Democratic National Committee spokesperson, has reiterated to the Associated Press the belief that the Green Party should not be on the ballot.
After the win, Stein wrote on X, formerly Twitter: "Big win against the anti-Democratic Party's war on democracy and voter choice! Wisconsin voters still have an anti-genocide, pro-worker, climate action choice this year!"
Stein previously ran as the Green Party's candidate for president in 2012 and 2016, with some blaming her for Hillary Clinton losing to Donald Trump in the latter election; the Green Party candidate received over 31,000 votes in Wisconsin and Trump won the state by just under 23,000 votes.
Jill Stein listens during a rally at Union Park during the Democratic National Convention, on August 21, in Chicago. The Green Party presidential candidate is celebrating being allowed to remain on the ballot in the... Jill Stein listens during a rally at Union Park during the Democratic National Convention, on August 21, in Chicago. The Green Party presidential candidate is celebrating being allowed to remain on the ballot in the state of Wisconsin. More AP
In her 2017 book What Happened, Clinton wrote: "So in each state, there were more than enough Stein voters to swing the result."
Nationally, Stein received 1 percent of the vote in 2016, just under 1.5 million votes.
In the 2020 election between Trump and Joe Biden, the Green Party's candidate Howie Hawkins did not appear on the ballot.
The Democratic Party has gone through considerable legal efforts to challenge third parties from appearing on ballots.
Before independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy suspended his campaign and endorsed Trump, Democratic-funded lawsuits had successfully removed him from the ballot in New York, and had tried and failed to remove him in North Carolina and New Jersey.
Update 8/29/24, 10:57 a.m. ET: This article was updated to include new information from Stein's team about her ballot access. It was also changed to reflect that Wisconsin is not Stein's home state.
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