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Apart from her work for the Wisconsin Republican Party, Ruhland has also worked for the Republican National Committee as well as most recently, representing the Trump campaign, as she was listed among the attorneys in a lawsuit from April this year against a Wisconsin local television station regarding an anti-Trump ad from pro-Democratic super PAC Priorities USA.

Ruhland did not respond to ABC News' request for comment.

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PHOTO: Kanye West makes his first presidential campaign appearance, in North Charleston, S.C., July 19, 2020.
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In Arkansas, Gregg Keller, a veteran GOP operative who previously worked with Mitt Romney and John McCain's presidential campaigns, was listed as the West campaign's contact on its signature filing submitted Tuesday. Keller had previously served as the executive director of Ralph Reed's Faith and Freedom Coalition and executive director of the American Conservative Union, according to their website, the oldest \"conservative grassroots organization\" in the United States.

Rush to find electors

The rush to find people to serve as electors for West's bid has been problematic. Electors are typically selected months in advance of the general election and some states decide on electors during the state's primary election. In some states they are decided at the party conventions.

Chuck Wilton, who was voted as delegate for the Republican Party in Vermont, was listed as an elector for West in the same state. In 2017, the Trump administration appointed Wilton's wife, Wendy, to serve as the state executive director for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency in Vermont, a role she still occupies. ABC News has reached out to the Republican Party in Vermont to ask whether the state's rules allow electors to be listed for multiple candidates, but they did not respond to a request for comment.

Another GOP-linked name that has been associated with West's presidential bid is Jane Drummond -- a member of the Republican National Lawyer Association, a Republican \"network of fellow professionals by practice area who share expertise,\" according to their website -- who was listed as among West's possible electors in Missouri, according to the filing with the Secretary of State office in Missouri.

Keller, Wilton and Drummond did not return ABC News' requests for comment.

When asked if West is running a symbolic campaign, a source close to the campaign told ABC News, \"Biden and Trump are both caught in scandals and Kanye just catches on with the public.\"

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