Kennedy Back on the Ballot in Michigan

The fight to have Kennedy removed from the ballot after having dropped out of the race continues.

In the latest found of this saga, the Michigan Supreme Court has ruled that Kennedy will be on the ballot.

This is a reversal of a lower court ruling that would have him off the ballot.

Here We Go

Common sense says that if you have withdrawn from the race with enough time to have your name removed from the ballot, you should not be on the ballot on election day.

Unfortunately, common sense is not something our judiciary seems to have today, as it has gone more activist than jurist.

In this case, the court ruled that there was no specific law saying that he had to be removed since he dropped out, so his name is back on the ballot in what will become a key focus of this presidential election.

Michigan begins mailing out ballots to voters in less than two weeks, so I suspect Kennedy will take this to the Supreme Court and ask for an expedited ruling.

Michigan Supreme Court Justices David Viviano and Brian Zahra blistered their fellow jurists in a scathing dissent.

They wrote, “The ballots printed as a result of the Court’s decision will have the potential to confuse the voters, distort their choices, and pervert the true popular will and affect the outcome of the election.

“In short, the Court’s ruling will do nothing to rebuild the public’s trust in the fairness and accuracy of our elections.”

I agree, and I would say this even if Kennedy was drawing votes from Harris because it is just wrong.

Why fight to have a candidate that you know is out of the race on the ballot?

This is election tampering or election interference, whatever you want to call it, but it creates an unfair election that will give voters reason to complain regardless of the outcome.

Democrats continue to preach about a free and fair election, yet they are the ones now fighting to keep a man on the ballot who withdrew from the race more than two months before the election.