Votes in Georgia for third-party presidential candidates Cornel West, an independent, and Claudia De la Cruz, a socialist, will not count because the two are not qualified to appear on the ballot, the Supreme Court of Georgia ruled unanimously on Sept. 25.
The state’s highest court overruled an earlier decision by Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger that had lowered the signature threshold needed in petitions for ballot access to 7,500.
Georgia—which then-presidential candidate Joe Biden won by fewer than 12,000 votes in 2020—is one of multiple states where Democrats have sought to prevent third-party and independent candidates from siphoning votes away from Vice President Kamala Harris in November….