The hearing in U.S. District Court in the Arizona Green Party case took about 40 minutes. The state defended its law, barring out-of-state circulators from working on a petition to get a party on the ballot, by saying there is no enforcement mechanism to stop out-of-state circulators from working on such a petition. That is a rather half-hearted defense, especially because the petition form is a state form and it says that the circulator is an Arizona resident.
The state defended the February petition deadline by saying that the state doesn’t use random sampling to check petitions for new parties, so it needs extra time. Arizona does use a 5% random sampling procedure to check initiative petitions, and there seems no rational reason why Arizona can’t also use random sampling to review petitions for a new party. A decision is likely by the end of this week.
How many of those hoards from Asia, Mexico, Canada, Europe, etc. FORGE signatures — and are long gone before their felony stuff is detected (if ever) ???
Sorry — in a *sovereign* regime there are the LEGAL Electors — every body else is an ALIEN.
Much too difficult for the New Age MORON courts to understand.
When was the first ballot access petition required by law ???
More or less than 100 years AFTER the 1st Amdt in 1791 ???
“How many of those hoards from Asia, Mexico, Canada, Europe, etc.”
Oh yes the Green Party with all it’s wealth is going to fly in petitioners from all over the world so they can forge signatures.
We are talking about fellow citizens from other US states helping to collect signatures.
Since when is asking someone to change law by redress or qualify a candidate for ballot a crime?
Could you imagine,
‘hey would you like to legalize marijuana and get Ralph Nader on the ballot for Predident?’
Where are you from?
California.
You go to jail for holding those petitions.