A North Carolina appeals court has directed that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name be taken off state ballots for president. Friday's ruling by the intermediate-level Court of Appeals blocks the planned distribution of absentee ballots later Friday in what would have been the first sent out nationally for the Nov. 5 election.
El candidato presidencial republicano Donald Trump estrecha la mano del candidato presidencial independiente Robert F. Kennedy Jr. en un acto de campaña en el Desert Diamond Arena, el viernes 23 de agosto de 2024, en Glendale, Arizona. .Dawn Stephens, right, and Duane Taylor prepare ballots to be mailed at the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024.
State law otherwise required the first absentee ballots to be mailed or transmitted no later than 60 days before the general election, making Friday the deadline. The process of reprinting and assembling ballot packages likely would take more than two weeks, state attorneys have said. The ruling could be appealed.
A favorable outcome for Kennedy could assist Trump’s efforts to win the presidential battleground of North Carolina. Trump won the state’s electoral votes by just 1.3 percentage points over Democrat Joe Biden in 2020. In an email, state board attorney Paul Cox told election directors in all 100 counties after Friday’s ruling to hold on to the current ballots but not send them. More than 2.9 million absentee and in-person ballots have been printed so far.
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