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.

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.

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

Cornel West will be on Virginia's presidential ballot in November. Why it matters: The state's Department of Elections had initially disqualified his candidacy because of faulty paperwork before reversing its decision earlier this month.

Cornel West and Abdullah will also appear on the ballots of the battleground states of Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Georgia

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.