FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Monday, July 15, 2024
Cornel West for President
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[Sacramento, California] – The West/Abdullah 2024 campaign has been alerted to multiple reports from California voters regarding discrepancies in their voter registration records. Specifically, numerous voters who registered with the "Justice for All Party" have found their records incorrectly labeled as "No Party Preference" (NPP).

While this issue involves the Justice for All Party, the West/Abdullah campaign is committed to ensuring that every voter's registration accurately reflects their chosen party affiliation. This concern is vital to maintaining voter confidence and the integrity of the electoral process. We are working hard to alert state and local officials so that they can identify and correct these errors promptly. It is statutory that the "Justice for All Party" be correctly listed on voter registration cards. Having at least one-third of one percent of registered voters in California registered as Justice for All Party allows the political body to qualify as a political party and nominate a candidate for president during the 2024 presidential election.

Rev. Richard Rose, Chair of the California chapter of Justice For All, stated “We believe that county officials have failed to properly register voters as affiliated with JFA, and because we believe that we have been unreasonably deprived of information that would have enabled JFA to, among other things, identify counties where failure to properly register our supporters has been occurring, so that such issues could be addressed a reasonable time prior to the qualifying deadline, we contend that the state’s actions have impermissibly burdened and obstructed JFA’s constitutionally protected organizing efforts and the associational rights of an as-yet-undetermined number of California voters."

All California voters are encouraged to verify their current voter registration status by visiting the California Secretary of State’s website. If discrepancies are found, voters should report them immediately to the Secretary of State's office. Be sure to keep records of the error (i.e.: a photo of the erroneous registration card and your voter registration receipt, if available). If necessary, voters should re-register with the correct party affiliation.

The West/Abdullah campaign is dedicated to protecting the rights of voters and ensuring a fair and transparent electoral process. We also encourage supporters who encounter discrepancies to share their experiences on social media by tagging @CornelWest @DocMellyMel and @JusticeforAllPartyCalifornia.

To date, the West/Abdullah campaign has secured ballot access in Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Colorado, South Carolina, Utah, Oregon, Alaska, and Vermont, pending finalization of certification in certain states.

About the Justice for All Party

In an effort to directly confront the suppression of voter choice and participation by legacy political parties, Independent candidate for President of the United States, Dr. Cornel West, announced the establishment of the Justice For All Party (JFA). The party will primarily be utilized as a grassroots, people-powered vehicle to secure ballot access in specific states. Additionally, JFA will grow into a larger formation that galvanizes people-powered initiatives to promote transformational change beyond the 2024 election cycle. JFA provides a mechanism for our grassroots campaign to travel a path of least resistance that will require the fewest number of signatures to attain ballot access in states like California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, New Mexico, North Carolina, Washington and the District of Columbia.

About Dr. Cornel West

Dr. West, affectionately known to many as Brother West, is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary.

Dr. West is the former University Professor at Harvard University, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University and the first Black person to receive a Ph.D. In Philosophy from Princeton University. He has written 20 books and he is best known for his classics, Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and for his memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. He delivered the historic Gifford lectures at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland in Spring 2024.

Dr. West enters the 2024 Presidential contest at a time in which he describes a national crisis of moral bankruptcy and spiritual obscenity driven by a derelict duopoly of both major parties that equally places profits over people and the planet. West asserts that running as an Independent candidate affords him the opportunity and duty to deliver policy prescriptions incorporated by and for the people, instead of political parties beholden to corporations and special interest groups who feel no solidarity with poor and working-class people of all races, gender identities, and age groups.

The Cornel West Campaign to empower poor and working people everywhere stands at a pivotal moment in history, committed to being a true campaign for people around the globe. Our aim is and will always be to unite in solidarity with movements of truth and justice, who seek a choice beyond empire, white supremacy, capitalism, patriarchy, and the confines of the corporate-dominated two-party system.

About Dr. Melina Abdullah

Melina Abdullah is Professor of Pan-African Studies at Cal State LA’s College of Ethnic Studies, Co-Founder of Black Lives Matter - Los Ángeles and Black Lives Matter Grassroots, where she is also Director. She is a leader in the California Faculty Association (the faculty union), both locally and statewide, and mama of three. Dr. Abdullah earned her Ph.D. from University of Southern California in Political Science and her B.A. from Howard University in African American Studies. Abdullah has authored numerous articles and book chapters. Known by the moniker, Doc Melly Mel, she is creator, host, and producer of the radio programs Move the Crowd on KPFK 90.7 FM and This Is Not a Drill! on KBLA Talk 1580, and is a recognized expert on race, gender, class, and social movements. In April 2024, Abdullah was announced as vice-presidential pick for Dr. Cornel West in his run for president of the United States on a platform of “Truth, Justice, and Love.” She is the first Muslim to run for the vice-presidency.

Learn more about Cornel West at CornelWest2024.com. 

Learn more about Dr. West’s Policy Pillars at CornelWest2024.com/Platform.

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