“But the defect that prevents independent presidential candidates West and De la Cruz from appearing on Georgia’s ballot does not pertain to the number of signatures acquired; it is that West’s electors and De la Cruz’s electors filed no nomination petitions at all,” Justice Sarah Warren wrote.
There's a process for ballot access, which includes the candidate's electors filing paperwork. They didn't. Counting votes for these two candidates' would be allowing ballot access to a candidate who didn't meet the prerequisites. This court ruling appears appropriate, based on information I have at hand.
So two candidates failed to submit their paperwork to get onto the ballot but the state in a bizarre display of proactive incompetence put them on the ballot anyways? The mistake eventually got caught and taken to the court and of course the court rules they have to follow the process dictated by law. And now Raffensperger is saying it's too late to change (which, ok understandable) and worse, is doubling down on his mistake by falsely claiming votes for them will be counted when the court has established they can't be?
It's Georgia, despite the weird media blitz in recent years it's one of the most backwards, racist, incredibly fascist- sympathetic states out there. It's Mississippi but with peaches. Of course they'd be anti democracy.