Votebeat: Wisconsin clerks in sticker shock over Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s request to have name covered on ballot

Alexander Shur of Votebeat reports Wisconsin election officials’ alarm at Robert Kennedy Jr’s request to have his name covered on ballots by a sticker.

Wisconsin election officials are alarmed by a request from onetime presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. that may force them to apply stickers to cover up his name on millions of ballots, warning that it would be a big hassle to get the stickers on right, and could gum up the works on Election Day.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission turned down Kennedy’s bid on Aug. 27 to get his name removed from the ballot, citing a state law that says qualified nominees must appear on the ballot unless they die. But Kennedy has asked a court to order that his name be removed or covered up on the ballot with a sticker, a task that would have to be overseen by municipal clerks around the state.

That request is now before a conservative appeals court in Waukesha, and may end up before the Wisconsin Supreme Court, with fewer than seven weeks until the Nov. 5 election.