Wisconsin Democrats on the election committee actually voted to put RFK Jr.’s name on the ballot yesterday despite his request to withdraw his name after dropping out. The chairwoman argued they should add his name despite his request since he filed for the nomination, which is clearly a move to try and hurt Trump.

The three Republicans on the committee challenged that decision with a motion to take his name off the list, but they lost since it was a tie vote.

The initial vote which put RFK’s name on the ballot sounds like a catch-all vote on all the names to be added, which is why the three Republicans then made a motion to remove his name.

To be clear, the decision on which names to put on the ballot came yesterday. It wasn’t like RFK Jr.’s name was already on the ballot and they refused to remove it.

Just like in Michigan, the chairwoman who argued to keep RFK Jr.’s name on the ballot then tried to remove Cornel West from the ballot. Her motion failed as well because she was the only one who voted for her motion.

Here’s more from Wisconsin Examiner:

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will stay on the Wisconsin ballot in November, the Wisconsin Elections Commission decided Tuesday, despite Kennedy’s last-minute request to be removed.

Elections commission Chair Ann Jacobs, one of three Democratic appointees to the evenly divided commission, argued that state law prevents removing a candidate for office who has met the requirements.

“If you file nomination [papers] and qualify, you may not decline the nomination, and the name of that person shall appear upon the ballot, except in the case of the death of the person,” Jacobs said, arguing against taking Kennedy off the ballot.

The 5-1 vote that included Kennedy on the ballot followed a motion by one of the three Republican commissioners, Don Millis, that excluded Kennedy from a list of approved independent tickets. The Millis proposal failed on a 3-3 tie vote with only Republicans voting in favor.

“I think it’s clear that somebody should have the opportunity to withdraw before we decide to put them on the ballot,” said Republican commissioner Bob Spindell, who voted against the motion that kept Kennedy.

Kennedy announced Friday he was suspending his independent presidential campaign and throwing his support behind former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee. In a statement, he said he would seek to pull his name from the ballot in 10 battleground states “where my presence would be a spoiler,” siphoning votes from Trump.

Along with Kennedy, the commission certified two other independent presidential tickets: Cornel West and his running mate, Melina Abdullah, running under the Justice For All party banner; and Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia representing the Socialist and Liberation Party.

The commission rejected, on a 5-1 vote, a challenge that would have excluded West and Abdullah from the ballot because one of two notarized pages on the papers their campaign submitted lacked a notary’s signature. Jacobson cast the dissenting vote.