PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania counties can begin printing and distributing mail ballots after the Pennsylvania Department of State finalized the list of candidates who will appear on the ballot Monday.

Academic and activist Cornel West, who is running for president as an independent candidate, won’t be on the ballot in Pennsylvania, the state Supreme Court decided on Monday in upholding a lower court’s ruling.

Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court has upheld a lower ruling that rejected a bid to get independent presidential candidate Cornel West on the battleground state's ballot for the November election.

The Michigan Supreme Court has ruled that independent presidential candidate Cornel West’s name will remain on Michigan’s Nov. 5 presidential ballot. In an order issued Monday, the state’s highest court upheld a ruling by the Michigan Court of Appeals last week,

Activist and independent presidential candidate Cornel West is eligible for Michigan’s ballot, after the state Supreme Court declined to touch lower judges’ rulings on the matter.

Cornel West is back on the presidential ballot in Virginia, despite a new state law that had appeared to disqualify a dozen of his electors if he won his longshot

The Pa. Supreme Court decision cleared the way for counties to begin printing and sending out mail ballots. Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt has certified the official list of candidates.

Independent presidential candidate Cornel West will not make Pennsylvania's ballot after the battleground state's Supreme Court on Monday upheld a lower court ruling, and counties started printing ballots.