The Wisconsin Elections Commission voted Tuesday to keep Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the state’s presidential ballot in November, thwarting the former third-party candidate’s plan to remove his name from ballots in key swing states that will decide the 2024 presidential election.

The Wisconsin State Elections Commission voted 5-1 on Tuesday to keep Kennedy’s name on the ballot. The law states: “No person filing nomination papers and qualifying to appear on the ballot shall be permitted to refuse the nomination.”

A Trump spokesman did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment on the state’s decision.

Kennedy suspended his hopeless candidacy for the White House on August 23 and supported Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

During his joint appearance with Trump in Arizona, Kennedy said his name would remain on the ballot in most states.

But “in about 10 swing states where my presence would spoil the election, I will withdraw my name,” Kennedy said. “I have already begun that process and I am urging voters not to vote for me.”

The move is widely seen as an attempt to help Trump by ensuring that Kennedy voters do not have the opportunity to vote for him in states where the majority of voters could narrowly vote for him.

Polls initially suggested that Kennedy’s withdrawal from the race would likely benefit Trump more than his opponent, Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

This is partly because Kennedy is much more popular among Republicans than Democrats, meaning Trump has a better chance of winning over potential Kennedy voters than Harris.

However, this strategy works best when voters have no opportunity to vote for Kennedy because his name does not appear on the ballot.

But Kennedy’s strategy of dropping out of the candidacy and trying to remove his name from the ballot in key states does not go quite according to plan.

In Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada and North Carolina – four swing states – Kennedy’s name will likely remain on the ballot until November.

In April, Kennedy secured a place on the Michigan ballot as the Natural Law Party candidate.

Under state law, it is too late for the Natural Law Party to select new electors, so Kennedy’s name will remain on the ballot, Cheri Hardmon, press secretary for the Michigan Secretary of State, told CNBC in an email.

In Michigan, “minor party candidates cannot withdraw their candidacy,” Hardmon wrote.

In North Carolina, Kennedy is expected to be on the ballot as the candidate of the We The People Party.

As of Tuesday, “this party has not informed the state executive committee of any plans to change its nomination,” Patrick Gannon, a spokesman for the North Carolina State Board of Elections, told CNBC in an email.

“If We The People officially withdraws its nomination, the State Council would have to examine the feasibility of removing its name from the ballot papers and then reprinting the ballot papers,” he added.

Gannon said North Carolina will begin sending out mail-in ballots on Sept. 6 and that as of Tuesday morning, more than half of the state’s 100 counties have already begun printing ballots.

And any attempts by Kennedy to withdraw from the Nevada election would come too late. Under Nevada law, a withdrawal of candidacy must be submitted in person no later than seven business days after the filing deadline.

The deadline for independent candidates in Nevada was August 8, meaning Kennedy would have had to drop out of the race by August 20.

Kennedy has withdrawn his candidacy in Arizona, Florida, Ohio and Texas, the respective secretaries of state announced. He will probably not run in Pennsylvania and Georgia either, as his candidacy was being negotiated in the state courts.