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The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from Nevada’s Green Party seeking to include presidential candidate Jill Stein on the ballot in the battleground state.

The court’s order Friday, without any noted dissents, allows ballot preparation and printing to proceed in Nevada without Stein and other Green Party candidates included.

The outcome is a victory for Democrats who had challenged the Greens’ inclusion on the ballot in a state with a history of extremely close statewide races. In 2020, President Joe Biden outpaced former President Donald Trump by fewer than 35,000 votes in the state.

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[–] Phegan 2 points 6 days ago

Jill Stein is unqualified to be president and generally has no idea what she is talking about.

[–] [email protected] 107 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Same time next Presidential election, Jill?

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean she could use the time between to build local support for the Green Party in lots of places. I guess that isn't what she's after.

[–] njm1314 30 points 1 week ago

And God forbid they spend any money on local elections where they can affect things like I don't know actual green party issues.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Sure usually hangs out in Russia between elections, right?

[–] acosmichippo 13 points 1 week ago

The Winter Candidate.

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[–] FlyingSquid 47 points 1 week ago

More's the pity, she can't run for president of Russia either.

[–] Fedizen 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

while normally I'd be upset if they were running somebody with some kind of real intent to push real issues, its clear Stein is mostly isnt interested in pushing anything but conspiracy theories and russian appeasement.

[–] ripcord 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

But if we don't vote 3rd party then democrats will never do the exact things I want, or some shit

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yes, that latter point does describe how well you have summarized other people's arguments. Good luck to you on that one.

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 6 days ago

Considering there is not a good argument for voting for a third party presidential candidate in this election vs. not voting at all, I don't think the summary matters.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL 42 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Oh dear, that’s going to make her path to an electoral college victory harder, isn’t it.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

She has 49 other states she can fail to win in...

but still siphon enough votes to hand trump the whitehouse

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I feel like she isn't on the ballot in a large number of states. I feel like basic research would reveal this fact. I feel like she isn't going to siphon many votes away from Harris. I know for sure that people want to be able to blame her if Harris loses.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

She doesnt need to pull that many votes from the Dems, the race is on a knife edge pretty much everywhere.

She's also on the ballot in 39 states, which includes all of the battle ground states except nevada

[–] FlyingSquid 10 points 1 week ago

270 to win!

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[–] EleventhHour 38 points 1 week ago (14 children)

Why can’t these candidates file proper forms? What the hell is so difficult about that?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There are a miniscule number of presidential candidates running in a given year, so I assume that the UX on the process isn't very optimized.

[–] pyre 2 points 6 days ago

running for president is literally all she does. she should be able to speedrun this by now.

[–] acosmichippo 40 points 1 week ago

but she's done this like 3 times already.

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[–] andrewta 23 points 1 week ago (45 children)

The petition forms were faulty. Be nice if we were told what was wrong with them

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Again.... I might just go back too being a Dem. I tried 3rd party but, this stuff keeps happing. I like the ideals just no was too do it from a third party way for the time being. Gotta change from with in I guess.

[–] njm1314 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not from within, from underneath. You effect change at the lower levels. Political change comes from the ground up. That's why Jill Stein is so frustrating cuz she takes all the money and attention that could be spent somewhere useful and instead spends it on a boondoggle for her own personal gain.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This. The Brits have a first past the post system. Greens now are winning mayorships and parliament seats and making deals with labor not to split the vote in their favor because they have been building local support for decades.

They are a force in their districts, so they get elected to office in their districts. Do that to a few dozen districts and you can meaningfully affect the balance of power in Westminster. Then you start getting into coalitions and supplying ministers.

You can’t just wake up once every four years and hope to be anything but a spoiler candidate.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The two party system is incredibly frustrating. There is also a feeling of helplessness because the path to change is unclear. Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans truly want more competition

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[–] irotsoma 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

She seemed like a good alternative to Trump and Clinton at the time. But looking back I realize she was just put there by Putin to draw away lesser evil votes from Clinton so Trump could win. Another reason the Democratic Party fucked up by not allowing centrist or leftist candidates like Sanders even when they'd have a way better chance of winning by getting a lot of people to actually vote because they'd have a candidate they like rather than just voting against the other guy.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Putin is gonna be so pissed at her

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

More good news on a Friday.

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