On October 22, the Massachusetts Secretary of State asked the First Circuit to reverse the injunctive relief that had been granted by a U.S. District Court on September 22, in Barr v Galvin. This is the case over whether Massachusetts was constitutionally required to let the Libertarian Party use a stand-in on its presidential petition. The appeal will not affect this year’s ballot.
Only four states (besides Massachusetts, which always had trouble making up its mind) have ever definitively refused to let unqualified parties use presidential substitution. Those states are New Hampshire, Maine, Alabama, and South Dakota. By a strange coincidence, the First Circuit includes New Hampshire and Maine. Therefore, if Massachusetts Secretary of State loses again in the First Circuit, that will have beneficial effects on New Hampshire and Maine.
The basis for allowing unqualified parties to use substitution is that all states let qualified parties use it. This was illustrated in 1972, when the Democratic National Convention chose Thomas Eagleton in July, but replaced him in August, after the original ticket had been certified to all states.
I knew Thomas Eagleton, a really great guy. After being rebuffed [1968] by LBJ [no American boys to die in an asian war] and clone HHH, I voted for [legit WWII war hero] McGovern [while holding my nose] and began my life long distrust of Democrats!
I still dispise Jimmy Carter for ruining the legacy of THOUSAND OF AMERICANS by bullying ‘independent’ athletic organizations to an ‘independent’ boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Summer Games. Georgia male bitch and self righteous dictator!