Wisconsin Elections Commission Votes to Keep Cornel West on Ballot in Key Swing State

The commission voted 5–1 in West’s favor to place him on the ballot.

Presidential hopeful Cornel West speaks during a protest for a Gaza cease-fire, in Chicago on Aug. 22, 2024. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

The Wisconsin Elections Commission voted 5–1 on Aug. 27 to keep Cornel West, a long-shot progressive candidate, on the ballot in the key swing state.

The lone dissenting vote was cast by the commission’s chair, Ann Jacobs, a Democrat who said that while West properly submitted his name to be on the ballot, his running mate, Black Lives Matter activist Melina Abdullah, did not.