First Circuit Rejects Appeal of the Lower Court Ruling that Struck Down Ban on Voter Signing Petitions for Two Candidates for Same Office

On October 8, 2009, a U.S. District Court in Rhode Island had struck down a Central Falls city ordinance that made it illegal for a voter to sign petitions for two candidates running against each other for the same office.  The city had appealed to the First Circuit.  But on November 3, 2010, the First Circuit said the city’s appeal is moot.  This is partly because the Rhode Island legislature passed a law in 2010 that requires all towns to let voters sign as many petitions as they wish.  Fontes v City of Central Falls, 09-2516.

Even before the case started, it had already been the law in Rhode Island that voters could sign as many petitions (for the same office) for federal and state office as they wished.  The case only arose because some towns in Rhode Island had a more restrictive policy.


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First Circuit Rejects Appeal of the Lower Court Ruling that Struck Down Ban on Voter Signing Petitions for Two Candidates for Same Office — 3 Comments

  1. One of these centuries the MORON courts may be able to detect that complaints are based on alleged violations of the LAW at a specific time and place.

    Unless some law is retroactively repealed, then the alleged violation did happen — with especially $$$ damages to bankrupt moron government officials and regimes – especially for constitutional LAW violations.

    ANY State in which the local MORON cities, towns, villages and townships have ZERO discretion in election law stuff ???

  2. You have a choice, if you centralize election administration, and something goes wrong it ALL goes wrong.

    If local jurisdictions do it, at least the mistakes are confined to a few local places.

    And if it is everywhere, you’ve lost the battle already, at least that specific one

  3. U.S.A. Const. — ONLY the States as such have election law powers and duties.

    — i.e. NO mention of local MORON regimes — doing their own evil crazy election law stuff.

    Equal as in the Equal Protection Clause — applying to the 50 States.

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