RFK Jr. threatens to sue Nevada over ballot access
Source: CBS News
March 25, 2024 / 8:48 PM EDT
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is threatening legal action against Nevada over his petition to appear on the ballot as an independent candidate, his campaign said Monday, after CBS News reported that the signatures he had gathered could be invalid because his petition did not include a vice presidential candidate.
The Kennedy campaign claimed that the Democratic Party invented a new rule to invalidate his Nevada signatures. But Nevada's requirement for a vice presidential candidate to be named in an independent candidate's petition has been on the books since 1993.
"After successfully collecting all of the signatures we need in Nevada, the DNC Goon Squad and their lackeys in the Nevada Secretary of State's office are outright inventing a new requirement for the petition with zero legal basis," said Kennedy ballot access attorney Paul Rossi. "The Nevada statute does not require the VP on the petition. The petition does not even have a field for a VP on it."
"This corrupt attempt by the Nevada Secretary of State must be enjoined by a federal judge," Rossi said. "The Kennedy campaign intends to depose the Secretary of State to find out exactly which White House or DNC official concocted this scheme."
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