Kanye West has been removed from the presidential ballot in Virginia
nme.comKanye West has been removed from the presidential ballot in Virginia.The singer’s campaign to run for US president has hit another stumbling block, with a judge in Virginia’s Richmond Circuit Court removing the rapper from the state’s ballot.As The Washington Post reported last week, a lawsuit was filed by a number of Democrats in Virginia, who claimed that West used invalid electors in order to get on the presidential ballot in the state.The judge has now concurred with the lawsuit, saying that 11 of West’s 13 electors in Virginia “were obtained by improper, fraudulent and/or misleading means”.Last week, two signed affidavits were submitted to the State Board of Elections by voters who claim they were fraudulently deceived into signing up.
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