Independent presidential candidate Cornel West has asked the Supreme Court to make Pennsylvania polling sites let voters know they can write him in

Third-party presidential candidate Cornel West has lost a Supreme Court bid to be included on the presidential ballot in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania.

West would likely have taken more votes from Kamala Harris than from Donald Trump if he'd been allowed on the Pennsylvania ballot.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Thursday rejected Cornel West’s ask for an emergency order requiring signs be posted at Pennsylvania polling places next week telling voters they can write in the independent candidate as their choice for president.

Justice Samuel Alito on Thursday rejected a request from progressive activist Cornel West to direct Pennsylvania election officials to post notices informing voters at polling locations statewide on Election Day that West is a presidential candidate and his name can be written in on ballots.

Democrats are spending about $500,000 for a last-minute push to persuade voters in battleground states to reject third-party candidates Jill Stein and Cornel West.

Issue: Whether the Supreme Court should issue an injunction pending appeal directing the Pennsylvania Department of State to post information at all polling locations across Pennsylvania on Election Day to inform voters that they can write in Cornel West for president.

Cornel West, another candidate from the green camp, chose to run independently of the Green Party. The 71-year-old academic and anti-racism activist who calls Biden a "war criminal" and describes Trump as a "neofascist" will be on the ballot in nearly a dozen states. He too will siphon a tiny, but potentially painful number of votes from Harris.

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By voting for Trump, Alaska has voted for the Republican in every election since it became a state, except for Lyndon Johnson in 1964.

Less than a week before Election Day, third-party candidates still present an unknown factor in key swing states where dozens of Electoral College votes are up for grabs.

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are statistically tied in the final Forbes/HarrisX pre-election survey, with Harris showing a razor-thin one-point lead—the latest poll to show there’s no clear leader just a day before the election.