A Wake County judge has ruled against Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s attempt to be removed from North Carolina presidential ballots, finding that the harm Kennedy would suffer would be small compared to that facing the state Board of Elections, although the judge granted Kennedy a 24-hour stay to appeal.
Last week, the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) decided in a vote at an emergency meeting on Aug. 29 to reject a request from the We The People Party to remove Kennedy, its nominee, from the general election ballot. In its decision, the board said it would be impractical to reprint ballots by the Sept. 6 deadline for mailing the first absentee ballots while also noting the additional costs involved in reprinting.
