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Democrats ask Wisconsin Supreme Court to boot Green Party from ballot

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The Democratic National Committee is asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to step in to prevent a Green Party candidate from appearing on Wisconsin ballots.

The petition asserts that Jill Stein and Butch Ware , the Green Party’s candidates for president and vice president, cannot legally appear on ballots.

According to the petition, that's because the Greens don’t have have any statewide office holders or state legislative candidates who are needed to nominate presidential electors in Wisconsin .

But the Stein campaign calls those legal arguments meritless.

“I don’t think you can spoil a bad system,” he said. Wisconsin Public Radio , Copyright 2024 , Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and Wisconsin Educational Communications Board ..