Two state court judges ruled Wednesday that West and socialist candidate Claudia De la Cruz have been disqualified from the ballot because their electors did not file the proper paperwork. Some ballots in the state, however, have already been printed, so both names will still appear despite being disqualified.

Fulton County Superior Court Judges Thomas A. Cox Jr. and Emily Richardson ordered the state to post notices in polling places warning that West and De la Cruz had been disqualified and that votes for them would be void if their names still appear, which is a common remedy for late election changes in Georgia, according to the Associated Press.

If the rulings stand, the ballots for presidential election in Georgia will include former President Donald Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris, Libertarian Chase Oliver, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, which will be the most candidates in the state since 2000.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger gets the last say in these types of ballot matters. An administrative law judge previously disqualified West, De la Cruz, independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the Georgia Green Party from the ballot, but Raffensperger overruled the judge, and said West and De la Cruz should get access.

He cited a Georgia law claiming Stein had the right to stay on the ballot because the national Green Party had qualified her in at least 20 other states. He removed Kennedy Jr. from the ballot after Kennedy Jr. suspended his campaign and requested that his name be taken off the ballot in swing states.

Meanwhile, Democrats appealed Raffensperger’s decisions on West and De la Cruz and filed a new challenge on Stein. Some Democrats see Stein as a “spoiler candidate” who could take away votes from Harris. In the 2020 election, President Joe Biden won the state by a little under 12,000 votes, marking the first time the Peach State voted for a Democrat for president since 1996, and Harris is looking for a win here again.

The West campaign and De la Cruz campaign both said they will appeal the decision from the Fulton County judges. 

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“We are confident that we will win the appeal,” Edwin DeJesus of the West campaign wrote in an email.

“We are appealing this decision which negates basic democratic rights of the people of Georgia to vote for the candidate of their choice. This is the result of the effort by the Democratic Party to sabotage democratic rights of Georgia voters at the very moment that they say that the 2024 election is about democracy itself,” Estevan Hernandez, co-chair of De la Cruz’s campaign in Georgia, said in a statement.