Days after independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his campaign and said he would seek to have his name removed from battleground state ballots, the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) voted to keep Kennedy on the state’s general election ballot.
Kennedy sent a letter to the WEC on Friday, requesting that his name be removed from the ballot, but the commission, which is made up of three Democrats and three Republicans, voted 5-1 on Tuesday to approve Kennedy’s and two other candidates’ names for the ballot, WKOW reported. A motion to remove Kennedy from the ballot after the initial vote failed in a 3-3 split. The commission cited a state law that says candidates cannot decline their nomination after filing for ballot access.
“We know Trump and Kennedy are playing games,” said Democratic elections commission member Mark Thompson, according to the
