Brainwormed not-really-independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr on Friday filed a lawsuit in North Carolina to get himself removed from the ballot, claiming that “practicality” of throwing out absentee ballots that are already being printed is not a legal basis to keep him on it and that the Dem-majority state Board of Elections was aware of his intent to withdraw and endorse convicted felon former President Trump before he did, the News and Observer reports.
“To the extent NCSBE claims it is ‘impractical’ to remove him from the ballot, it is an issue of NCSBE’s own making,” the lawsuit states. The Board’s executive director, Karen Brinson Bell, told board members that any halt in ballot printing could have caused the state to miss its statutory deadline for sending out absentee ballots, as well as cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.