LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Following back-and-forth between the Nevada Secretary of State and the campaign, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will now be eligible to be on Nevada’s election ballot in November.
The Secretary of State’s Office sent a letter of sufficiency Friday for a petition to add the independent candidate to the ballot. The campaign reportedly collected over 22,000 signatures.
Kennedy’s team submitted the second bout of signatures in early July after a previous petition was rejected. The first petition was rejected when it was submitted without a running mate, which Kennedy had not announced at the time.
In response, Kennedy’s team filed a lawsuit against the Secretary of State, alleging a “reinterpretation” of ballot access rules.
“This is a clear case for the federal court to apply the doctrine of equitable estoppel to prohibit the Secretary of State from changing his mind after providing binding statutory instruction upon which the campaign properly relied to our detriment,” Kennedy Campaign Senior Counsel Paul Rossi said in a statement at the time.
The Secretary of State’s Office said they gave the Kennedy team plenty of notice regarding the requirement.
A spokesperson for the Secretary of State said independent candidates for President and Vice President must file a declaration of candidacy by 5 p.m. on August 9.
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