(CNN) The Wisconsin Supreme Court decided on Monday to keep the Green Party candidate off the presidential ballot, ending a legal dispute that briefly threw the state's mail-in voting plans into chaos, and clearing the way for clerks to mail out ballots this week as planned. "We would be unable to provide meaningful relief without completely upsetting the election," the Supreme Court wrote in its 4-3 decision. Last week, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ordered local clerks to stop sending out ballots -- creating an impasse that threatened to derail the mail-in voting procedures in the key battleground state. Wisconsin state laws require clerks to mail ballots to voters who asked for them by Thursday. Ordering new ballots to be printed would be an expensive and time-consuming process that would not allow counties and municipalities to meet the statutory deadlines for delivering and sending ballots," the Supreme Court wrote on Monday.

Source: CNN September 14, 2020 22:16 UTC