Kanye West in legal row after missing presidential election filing deadline by seconds

Kanye West is taking legal action after officials in Wisconsin ruled that he missed the filing deadline. Photo: Reuters.

Kanye West's bid to be president of the United States of America has hit another roadblock. The rapper, 43, who is hoping to be elected to sit in the Oval Office, is taking legal action to make sure he is a candidate for the presidential election in Wisconsin after officials ruled he missed the filing deadline. In the swing state of Wisconsin, the hitmaker missed the 5 pm filing deadline on 4 August by 14 seconds, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. In retaliation Kanye then filed a legal complaint claiming that state law "does not distinguish between minutes and seconds" and so he should be on the ballot on Monday.

"For the average observer, arriving before 5:01 p.m. is arriving 'not later' than 5 p.m.," his election lawyer Michael Curran wrote in the filing. "The phrase 'not later' is particularly instructive in that it indicates the presumption that the seconds from 5:00:00 to 5:00:59 are inclusive to 5 p.m. As the statute states '5 p.m.,' for something to be filed later than ‘ 5 p.m.' it would have to be filed at 5:01 p.m."