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The Wisconsin Elections Commission voted on Tuesday to keep independent presidential candidate Cornel West on the ballot. An employee with the Democratic National Committee filed a challenge to West being a choice for voters, along with Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported. So much for the DNC being the party committed to “protecting democracy.” Trying to get West and Stein off the Wisconsin ballot was a raw political calculation. “The presence of independent and third party candidates on the ballot could be a key factor in a state where four of the last …

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