(Reuters) – Wisconsin’s highest court rejected a third-party candidate’s bid to join November’s presidential ballot, a move that would have invalidated tens of thousands of ballots already mailed to voters and potentially thrown the election process into chaos.
The court ruled that Howie Hawkins, the Green Party presidential candidate, was rightly left off the ballot by the state’s elections commission.
Election officials had warned that forcing them to reprint ballots with Hawkins’ name would have caused mass confusion while calling into question whether new ballots could even be finished in time for the election.
(Reporting by Joseph Ax; Editing by Sandra Maler)
