The Nevada secretary of state’s office said in a statement Monday that it “provided inaccurate guidance” to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign regarding whether the campaign needed to announce its vice presidential candidate prior to gathering signatures to gain ballot access in the state.
Earlier this month, Kennedy’s campaign announced it had gathered enough signatures to qualify for the ballot in Nevada. Shortly after that announcement, Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar, a Democrat, sent a memo to all independent presidential campaigns, including Kennedy’s, calling attention to a state law that indicates candidates must “designate a nominee for Vice President” in their petition of candidacy.
According to email correspondence shared by the Kennedy campaign, a staffer in the secretary of state’s office had
