RFK Jr. files new petition in Nevada amid legal battle over ballot access
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With less than a month left to collect signatures in Nevada, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. submitted a new petition to the Nevada Secretary of State's office Thursday, despite having previously filed a lawsuit against the office in an attempt to secure his place on the state ballot.
The independent candidate filed a lawsuit against the Nevada office last week, two months after learning that the campaign's collection of over 15,000 signatures in the state would be invalidated because the petition that was circulated to voters did not list a vice presidential pick, which is required by state law for ballot access. Now, Kennedy has submitted an amended petition, listing his running mate Nicole Shanahan, in case the lawsuit filed by the campaign does not result in a win for Kennedy.
While a staffer at the office wrongly informed the Kennedy campaign in March that it did not need a vice presidential pick on the petition, the office maintained that the campaign received clear guidelines for ballot access in a memo the same month.
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