The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against allowing Reform Party presidential nominee Pat Buchanan on Michigan’s Nov. 7 ballot, ending the candidate’s legal battle to appear on the ballot.
The nation’s highest court last week denied Buchanan’s application for an injunction against Michigan Secretary of State Candice Miller’s decision not to allow him on the ballot.
“There are no more legal possibilities to get Pat on the ballot,” said Mark Forton, who’s running for the U.S. Senate from Michigan on the Reform Party ticket. “They wouldn’t look at it, so we’re dead.”
Forton said he is working to get Buchanan registered with the secretary of state’s office as a write-in candidate. Statewide write-in candidates must file an affidavit with the secretary of state by Nov. 3, said Elizabeth Boyd, spokeswoman for the secretary of state.
