![]() Others were more aware of what they were signing.Īshia McCrary knew that she was signing up to be an elector, but she did not know she was signing up to be an elector for Kanye West. “I’m not a big fan but I know who he is.” “I have a very vivid memory, I don’t remember hearing his name,” she added. ![]() “I didn’t even know it was for him.”īrown said she had been approached outside a Food Lion in Charlottesville, and suggested that, moving forward, those with the West campaign “need to explain better” what they are asking for. “We shouldn’t do things in a rush,” she posited. “Ain’t no way in the world,” Wilson responded, adding that if he had known that he was being approached on the rapper’s behalf, “I would have walked away.”Ĭourtney Brown was more philosophical when she discovered that she was an elector for Kanye West. He sounded stunned when told what he had signed up for. “There was no mention of Kanye West,” explained Matthan Wilson, who said he was walking in downtown Norfolk when he was asked to sign for a third-party candidate to be on the ballot. “I’m certainly not supporting Kanye West,” she made clear before ending the conversation.Īnother elector, Sariah Cutler, said that someone approached her at the mall for what she was told was “a petition just to put somebody’s name on the ballot.” She went on to ask, “Is there any way I can take my name off?” “Holy guacamole,” she replied when informed it was not. “Is this a joke?” one of the electors, Ilisa Stillman, asked when reached by Intelligencer. West may face particular issues in Virginia, where seven of the 13 electors that West submitted told Intelligencer they were either unaware that they signed up to cast electoral votes on his behalf, or that they had signed notarized paperwork connected to the rapper’s presidential bid at all. West has filed in several other states in this week: Louisiana, Minnesota, Tennessee, and Virginia, but it is unclear if he will ultimately qualify to appear on the ballot in all of them. In Ohio, the information and signature on West’s nominating petition and his statement of candidacy did not match those on petitions circulated to be signed. In Wisconsin, it was because West did not file on time. In Illinois, Montana, and West Virginia, it was because he filed an insufficient number of valid signatures. In a span of two days, West was booted from the ballot in five states: Illinois, Montana, Ohio, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. ![]() The last 48 hours have presented a series of new challenges for Kanye West’s haphazard campaign for president. Kanye West’s political career is still off to a rocky start.
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