⁍ Wisconsin’s highest court rejected a third-party candidate’s bid to join November’s presidential ballot.

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⁍ The court ruled the Green Party’s presidential slate could not be added to the ballot.

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⁍ Officials had warned that forcing them to order more than 1 million ballots reprinted with Green Party presidential candidate Howie Hawkins’ name would have caused mass confusion.

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– The Green Party can’t add its candidate for president to the November ballot in Wisconsin, the state’s Supreme Court has decided. The court ruled 4-3 Monday that the Green Party’s two presidential candidates waited too long to challenge the state’s decision to exclude them due to discrepancies in their paperwork, Reuters reports. Election officials had warned that forcing them to order more than 1 million ballots reprinted with Green Party presidential candidate Howie Hawkins’ name would have caused mass confusion while calling into question whether new ballots could even be finished in time for the election. The rate of mail-in voting is expected to balloon across the country this year, as voters avoid polling sites in light of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. President Donald Trump, a Republican, has repeatedly claimed that the use of mail ballots will lead to fraud, though experts say there is no evidence to back his assertion. Wisconsin, which narrowly voted for Trump in 2016, is considered a crucial swing state in this year’s campaign. ‘Election chaos averted,’ the state’s Democratic attorney general, Josh Kaul, said in a statement. A spokesman for Hawkins, Robert Smith, said the decision ignored the commission’s ‘unlawful actions.’ “Now we have a dangerous precedent where a major party can effectively decide which minor parties can participate in elections, by conjuring up arbitrary requirements on the fly to remove its opposition,” he added.