“Kanye West’s Presidential run just got a death blow, at least in Illinois, where election officials say more than half his submitted signatures are invalid … and that means he’s off the ballot” TMZ reports.
“TMZ broke the story … multiple people stepped up to object after Kanye submitted his petition to get on the ballot in his home state. That triggered a review — from the State Board of Elections — of all the 3,128 signatures on his documents. The tally is in, and 1,928 were ruled invalid … which leaves Ye way more than a thousand short of the 2,500 needed to be a Presidential candidate on the state’s ballots. What we don’t know is what was wrong with the bad ones. It could be any number of issues — fake names, fake addresses, unregistered voters in Illinois — or even simply an illegible signature.”