{"id":12131,"date":"2024-08-15T20:42:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T20:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12131"},"modified":"2024-08-15T20:56:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T20:56:04","slug":"dnc-complaint-against-green-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12131","title":{"rendered":"DNC Complaint against Green Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/dnc-complaint-against-green-party\/\">https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/dnc-complaint-against-green-party\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>What Happened: <\/b><span>On Wednesday the Wisconsin Deputy Operations Director for the DNC <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wispolitics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/240814Complaint.pdf\"><span>filed a complaint<\/span><\/a><span> with the Wisconsin Elections Commission against the Wisconsin Green Party, challenging the Green Party\u2019s placement of its presidential candidate on the November ballot.\u00a0 The complaint argues the Green Party \u201c is legally foreclosed under Wisconsin law from nominating any presidential electors, and therefore cannot field candidates for president and vice president who are eligible to appear on the ballot.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Why it Matters: <\/b><span>In the 2016 presidential election, the Green Party candidate for president received over 31,000 votes in Wisconsin.\u00a0 In 2020, recognizing the impact of the Green Party candidate for president, a complaint was filed with WEC, ultimately preventing the placement of the Green Party candidate for president on the November ballot.\u00a0 In light of the 23,000 vote margin for President Biden, many have argued the removal of the Green Party candidate from the ballot impacted the fall outcome.\u00a0 Successfully removing the Green Party candidate for president again in 2024 could have significant implications for the outcome in November.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What Comes Next:<\/b><span> WEC will hear arguments regarding the DNC complaint.\u00a0 In the event WEC removes the Green Party candidate for president from the ballot, the losing party would have the opportunity to appeal.\u00a0 However, in light of upcoming deadlines to begin printing absentee ballots, any appeal would have to be made quickly and could include a direct appeal to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/dnc-complaint-against-green-party\/ What Happened: On Wednesday the Wisconsin Deputy Operations Director&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":3264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institute-for-reforming-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12132,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12131\/revisions\/12132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}