Election agency in North Carolina files to keep Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the ballot

The Board of Elections in North Carolina said that it has appealed the decision by the state Court of Appeals to remove former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the ballot. 

On Friday, the North Carolina Court of Appeals removed Kennedy Jr.'s name from the presidential ballot, resulting in a pause in absentee ballots being sent out.

The state's board of elections appealed the decision just hours after it was made, according to Axios.

New ballots without Kennedy Jr.'s name on them are being made, according to a press release from the board.

An appeals court on Friday also ordered the state of Michigan to remove Kennedy Jr.'s name from the ballot.

Last month, Kennedy Jr. announced he was suspending his presidential campaign and endorsing former President Donald Trump.

He made it clear that he would appear on the ballot in dominant red and blue states, but not swing states such as Arizona and Pennsylvania. 

He recently changed his tune and urged voters in all 50 states to vote for Trump.

“What the irony is, Chris, we have been trying to get on the ballot in every state, and we succeeded now in doing that. And now we’re taking ourselves off in the states where we would harm President Trump,” Kennedy said in an interview this week on NewsNation with Chris Cuomo.

“The Democrat Party, which was suing us to keep us off the ballot in those states, is now suing us to force us to be on the ballot,” he added.