Green Party Asks Supreme Court to Keep Its Candidates on Nevada Ballot

A lower court removed the party’s candidates after state officials instructed the party to use the wrong form, the emergency application stated.

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein speaks at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., in this file photo. Christopher Dolan/The Citizens' Voice via AP

The Nevada Green Party is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to keep its candidates on the state ballot for the Nov. 5 election.

The emergency application was filed on Sept. 13 after the Nevada Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling placing Green Party candidates on the ballot.