On August 27, a federal court in Charleston, West Virginia, heard five and one-half hours of testimony about the constitutionality of the state’s August 1 petition deadline for minor party and independent presidential candidates. The case is Barr v Ireland. The hearing went from 1:30 pm to 7 pm. On August 28, there will be an additional telephone conference call hearing in the case. The judge indicated he will decide by August 29.
WOW Thanks Richard for the update.
I hope the duration of the hearing means good news for the Libertarian PArty and all Third Parties in the future.
Five and a half hours ?!?! …what, did they have senator Byrd in there reciting Cicero?
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The State of West Virginia had four witnesses who work in election administration. Their testimony was that it takes too long to validate 15,118 signatures, to make it feasible for West Virginia to have an earlier deadline. In response, Barr’s attorney said that the state doesn’t need to require that many signatures; also the state is free to use random sampling or more high-tech methods for verifying signatures. After all, Oregon (which has all-mail balloting) must verify the signature of every single voter when that voter’s ballot arrives in the mail at the elections office. That is almost 2,000,000 signatures to verify in a very short time.
Bill Redpath was the only witness for Barr.
“The State of West Virginia had four witnesses who work in election administration. Their testimony was that it takes too long to validate 15,118 signatures”
THIS IS TOTAL BS!!!
The Constitution Party originally submitted 10854 signatures on May 12 (gubernatorial candidate’s deadline) and then another 10850 on August 1. Last Wednesday, August 20, we were notified that they had all been counted and we had enough valid. Most of the signatures turned in in May had already been counted, so that’s 571 per day for the August 1 batch. QUITE FEASIBLE, especially considering that the election clerks were also counting 13,171 of the Libertarian’s and some 4000 of Nader’s at the same time.
NOTE: These signatures were spread out among most all 55 counties. Sure, the Libertarians were concentrated mostly in Charleston (Kanawha County), but there were plenty of signatures from far away eastern and northern panhandles where other paid petitioners were working. Besides, Charleston is the state capitol, so thay’ll have a larger staff there.
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Hmm. Well one might want to check out the State’s election code online and see if their is any sort of ‘discretionary’ powers or loop holes that might allow the State to print a ballot with the two major party tickets on it.
Well, Aug. 29th is about over.
Did the judge keep his deadline for deciding?