Kanye West’s outsider bid for the White House received a blow on Tuesday after his campaign failed to file ballot signatures with state election officials in Wyoming.
Will Dinneen, a representative for the Wyoming secretary of state’s office, told the Casper Tribune that West failed to submit any of the 4,025 required signatures by Monday’s deadline. Dinneen noted that cryptocurrency entrepreneur and former child actor Brock Pierce submitted more than the required number of signatures for validation.
The rapper-turned-presidential candidate, who bought a ranch in Cody, Wyoming, at the end of 2019, also failed to meet the threshold to appear on the Missouri presidential ballot as state officials were unable to verify thousands of signatures turned in by the campaign.
“Today our office issued a letter to Kanye West informing him of the insufficiency of his independent candidate nomination petition for President,” Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft tweeted. “The petition was determined to have 6,557 valid signatures of the required 10,000.”
West is set to appear on the presidential ballot under the Birthday Party moniker in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Colorado, Utah, and Vermont.
