Cornel West wins ballot qualification court case in Michigan

Independent presidential candidate Cornel West scored a legal victory over the weekend for his ballot access bid in battleground Michigan.

Michigan Court of Claims Judge James Redford ruled Saturday that the state erred in disqualifying West from the ballot earlier this month after it had cited technical problems with the candidate’s petition. The judge found that the state had “misapplied the law” by ruling that the affidavit of identity filing requirement applies to presidential candidates when “the AOIs the candidates filed cannot serve as a mechanism to exclude them from the ballot.”