Judges orders Kanye West off Virginia and Arizona ballots
Judges orders Kanye West off Virginia and Arizona ballots Independent presidential candidate Kanye West will now be removed from the Virginia ballot after a Circuit Court judge granted an emergency order sought by two voters who said they were duped into helping the rapper-entrepreneur qualify for the ballot. Attorney General Mark Herring (D) had accused the rapper’s campaign of fraudulently gaining access to the ballot according to a Richmond NBC affiliate. Circuit Court Judge Joi Jeter Taylor agreed with the plaintiffs that 11 of West’s 13 electors were invalid and obtained by improper or fraudulent means. He thereafter barred state elections officials from printing West's name on ballots and said officials in any communities where his name already had been printed must provide notice to voters that he had been disqualified. Arizona state Judge Scott McCoy on his part ruled on Thursday September 3, that the plaintiffs in an Arizona lawsuit filed on Monday Au...