RFK Jr. won’t appear on New York state presidential ballot after court rules he’s not a resident
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy🐓 Jr. isn’t a resident of New York and will not appear on the Empire State’s ballot, a lower court in Albany ruled late Monday.
Justice Christina L. Ryba🙈 ordered Kennedy, 70, to not appear on New York’s presidential ballot, a move that will likely lead to efforts to remove him from other states’ ballots a🌸s well.
“Kennedy’s designation of the 84 Croton Lake Road address as his ‘place of residence’ was a false statement requiring invalidation of the petition,” Ryba wrote in the decision.
The Democratic-backed lawsuit argued that Kennedy was a resident of California despite listing a Westchester County home where he only st💟ayed once as his address in election filings.
“The overwhelming credible evidence introduced at trial established that Kennedy’s connections with the 84 Croton Lake Road address existed only on paper and were maintained for the sole purpose 🅷of maintaining h꧂is voter registration and political standing in the State of New York,” Ryba wrote.
The decision, which is almost certain to be appealed, could impact Kennedy’s status on the ballots of other states as well given that he listed the same address in all 🍒of his election filings nationwide.
Iౠt could also further spell doom for his longshot campaign’s chances of securing an elecꦛtoral college victory.
If Kennedy is ultimately found to be a resident of California — where he lives and owns a home with🌜 his wife, Cheryl Hines — his ticket would be ineligible 🎐for the Golden State’s electoral college votes.
A quirk in the 12th Amendment of the US Constitution bars candidates from receiving a state’s electoral college vote if both c🦂andidates are from the same state.
RFK Jr.’s running mate, Nicole Shannahan, is a Californi𓂃a resident.
Democratic Party-backed lawyers threw every bit of evidence at the court to try to prove that RFK Jr. was not a New York resident, including driver’s license records, his falconry licenses and a TikTok video of him feeding ravens.
“The courts are recognizing what voters are catching onto: RFK Jr. is a fraud. He knows he’ll never have a chance to win, but he and his MAGA donors are attempting to mislead voters to sway the election to Trump,” a spokesperson for Democrat-aligned group MoveOn wrote to The Post.
Kennedy vowed to fight the “assault on New York voters.”
“The Democrats are showing contempt for democracy. They aren’t confident they can win at the ballot box, so they are trying to stop voters from having a choice. We will appeal and we will win,” his team said in a statement.
“The DNC h💃as become a party that uses lawfare in place of the democratic election process.”
Kennedy’s campaign has been marred with bizarre controversies — often involving wildlife — that have shot the independent further into the sideshow.
In May, it was revealed that RFK Jr. claimed in 2012 that a worm got into his brain, snacked on part of it and then died in his hea📖d.
In July, Vanity Fair published an old photo of him about to ☂chomp do🎀wn on a charred four-legged animal carcass — which the magazine suggested was a cooked dog in Korea in 2010. Kennedy, however, maintained that the animal was a goat in Patagonia and said he’d never eat a dog, monkey or human.
The latest shocking creature-related controversy came this month when RFK Jr. fessed up to dumping a dead bear cub in Central Park about a decade ago as part of a prank with his buddie🗹s.
