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.

Academic and activist Cornel West, who is running for president as an independent candidate, won’t be on the ballot in Pennsylvania, the state Supreme Court decided on Monday in upholding a lower court’s ruling.

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