Kanye West Wisconsin lawsuit on the presidential ballot

 Kanye West Wisconsin lawsuit on the presidential ballot.

The campaign for rapper Kanye West filed a lawsuit Friday against the state Elections Commission in a bid to get on the presidential ballot in Wisconsin this November.     

The 12-page suit was filed in Brown County Circuit Court. 

The state Elections Commission voted 5-1 last week to keep West off the ballot because it found that his campaign had filed its nomination papers shortly after the 5 p.m. deadline Aug. 4.  

West is running on the Birthday Party ticket with vice presidential candidate Michelle Tidball.

Reached Friday afternoon, Michael Curran of West's campaign had no comment. Reid Magney, spokesman for the state Elections Commission, declined to comment.

In the suit, West's attorneys focus solely on the issue of whether his campaign team filed its nomination papers on time. 

They argue that state Elections Board staff members impeded the West campaign by locking the door to the building before the 5 p.m. deadline. A staffer had to unlock the door for the campaign staff to come in and file the nomination papers. 

West's campaign also says the staff failed to keep accurate track of when the ballot access papers were filed. 

"The court should issue a declaratory judgment and injunction in favor of Kanye West and Michelle Tidball causing them to be on the November 3 general election ballot," wrote West's attorneys, Erick Kaardal and Gregory Erickson of Minneapolis.