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   The Michigan Bureau of Elections on Friday disqualified independent   
   presidential candidate Cornel West, the civil rights activist and philosopher,   
   along with his running mate from appearing on the Nov. 5 General Election   
   ballot over a technical violation    
   of state law.   
      
   Jonathan Brater, Michigan's elections director, wrote the West campaign a   
   letter dated Friday saying that the affidavits of identity submitted to the   
   Secretary of State's Office in June for West and his vice presidential running   
   mate, Melina Abdullah,    
   were not properly notarized.   
      
   The West campaign did not immediately respond to an email from the Free Press   
   about the disqualification on Friday.   
      
   Brater's letter, which gave West five days to provide evidence to rebut the   
   disqualification, said the West campaign was informed on July 26 about a   
   challenge to the affidavits brought by former Michigan Democratic Party   
   Chairman Mark Brewer and given    
   until Aug. 2 to respond. The letter said the West campaign still hadn't   
   responded to the challenge as of Friday.   
      
   Brater said West's affidavit of identity was notarized in Colorado and was   
   required to meet that state's rules for proper notarization in order to be   
   proper in Michigan. The letter said there were several defects, however,   
   including unfilled blanks on    
   the form, the notary's public stamp being sent on a separate sheet of paper   
   and the notary failing to identify what specific notarial act she was engaged   
   in.   
      
   "Your affidavit of identity was not notarized in compliance with the laws of   
   the state where it was notarized (Colorado), and therefore is not a valid   
   notarization under the Michigan Law on Notarial Acts," Brater wrote, saying   
   there was no need to    
   consider the challenge to West's running mate since she would only have been   
   on the ballot if he had been.   
      
   In a news release on June 20, the West campaign said it had submitted more   
   than enough petition signatures to make the Michigan ballot as an independent   
   candidate for president. "We are confident that the support we've garnered,   
   especially from    
   communities that feel unheard, will translate into substantial voter turnout,"   
   West said at the time.   
      
   Polls, however, have shown him not being much of a factor in the presidential   
   race in Michigan or nationally. The RealClearPolitics.com average of national   
   polls shows him currently fifth out of five candidates, with the support of   
   less than 1% of voters    
   and trailing Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee; Republican   
   former President Donald Trump, independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and   
   Green Party candidate Jill Stein. West also has less than 1% support in the   
   Michigan average of    
   polls.   
      
   According to a map compiled by the New York Times, West is on the ballot in   
   just five states, Alaska, Colorado, South Carolina, Oregon and Vermont.   
      
   Contact Todd Spangler: tspangler@freepress.com. Follow him on Tw   
   tter@tsspangler.   
      
   https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/08/16/m   
   chigan-disqualifies-cornel-west-november-election/74832390007/   
      
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