Kanye West withdrew his petition to get into New Jersey's presidential ballot. New Jersey officials are challenging West to prove the validity of its nominating petition on Monday.

According to the email chain between the judge and West's campaign email address, the rapper withdrew his appeal to appear as a presidential candidate in the ballot in New Jersey. An unidentified person wrote from a Kanye 2020 address to Administrative Law Judge Gail Cookson that West wants to drop his appearance on New Jersey's Ballot.

Kanye West No Longer Seek to Get in the New Jersey's Ballot
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Rapper Kanye West gets emotional as he holds his first rally in support of his presidential bid in North Charleston Rapper Kanye West gets emotional as he holds his first rally in support of his presidential bid in North Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. July 19, 2020.

Kanye 2020 email said on Monday, "At this time, Kanye 2020 has no further option than to regrettably withdraw from New Jersey and cease further efforts to place Mr. West's name on the New Jersey ballot."

Meanwhile, judge Cookson accepted the withdrawal on Tuesday, as per ABC News. Cookson wrote that he would consider the email as a request for a withdrawal of West's petition to have a spot for the nomination of president of the United States in the state of New Jersey. 

Last month, the election law attorney Scott Salmon objected to the petition of Kanye West. Salmon urged that West's appeal failed to pass the legal muster due to incomplete signatures, and some signatures West provided were very similar in handwriting. 

The registered Democrat, Scott Salmon, brought the complaint on his behalf and positively reacted to the news that West had withdrawn. telling that he is glad that West's campaign realized that their petition was deficient and not worth defending. "It sort of highlights that it shouldn't have been submitted in the first place," Salmon said in a phone interview.

According to MSN, the administrative judge said the campaign had not properly withdrawn West's candidacy despite the email sent for West's decision to bow out. Judge Cookson ordered to dismiss Kanye's petitions due to unfollowed basic requirements of New Jersey election law. 

West previously won ballot spots in six states, and two of those petitions are in dispute. Failing to be on the ballot of New Jersey adds another hurdle for West's presidential bid. Kanye's departure is said to leave the presidential race in New Jersey with six independent candidates.

The petition in New Jersey was submitted last week with over 1,300 signatures. West only needs 800 to get on the ballot as an independent candidate. Wherein Scott Salmon complained to the state election officials that many signatures were invalid, and West's petition should be rejected. In West's appeal, he included names like old Farley and Baby Raw, from Toms River.

On the other hand, West filed to appear on the West Virginia ballot yesterday. Kanye had an estimated 14,800 signatures before the midnight deadline as related by the spokesperson for the Secretary of State in West Virginia to Fox News. 

West needs 7,144 registered voters to complete the required signatures and get on the ballot in the state. The rapper also filed to be on the ballot in Arkansas and Vermont yesterday, where his running mate Michelle Tidball appeared for the first time in Vermont. 

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