The Election Officer Will Not Approve Blankenship's Application to the Senate

An election official from West Virginia blocked Don Blankenship's candidacy for the Senate.

(AP)

CHARLESTON, West Virginia – An election official blocked the candidacy of former coalminister Don Blankenship to run in the United States Senate in West Virginia as a candidate for the Constitutional Party. it will not approve the candidacy of Blankenship, based on the state's "loser" law. The law prohibits leading candidates from losing parties from moving to a minor party. Blankenship finished third in the Republican primary.

The Blankenship campaign said that it will "vigorously challenge" all the refusal of its efforts to be on the November ballot with Republican Patrick Morrisey and outgoing Democratic Senator Joe Manchin

former Massey CEO Energy, which had a mine where an explosion in 2010 killed 29 miners. He spent a year in a federal prison for breaking safety regulations.