The Green Party will appear on Nevada’s presidential ballot in November, a state judge ruled Monday, tossing out an appeal from state Democrats and setting up the potential for the third party to bleed votes from Vice President Harris.
The Green Party has not appeared on Nevada ballots since 2008. The party’s 2024 petition for ballot access was challenged by the state Democratic Party, which claimed that some of the submitted signatures were invalid.
Carson City District Court Judge Kristin Luis ruled Monday that the challenge was not enough to disqualify the Green Party from the ballot.
“The Democratic Party has not met its burden of demonstrating that the petition is clearly invalid because it has not produced sufficient evidence to show that the petition has less than the required number of valid signatures in any petition district,” she wrote.
The ruling comes just two weeks before the filing deadline for third parties in Nevada.
Green Party candidate Jill Stein celebrated the ruling in a post Monday.