The New York Times of January 16 has this article about protests in Iraq, over a government decision to bar hundreds of candidates from the ballot, in the regional elections set for March. The candidates were removed from the ballot on the basis that in the past they had been too closely associated with the former ruling party, the Baath Party.
Six states in the United States still have election laws that bar certain political parties, or certain candidates, from the ballot, based on their beliefs. They are Arizona, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Kansas, and Ohio.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill several years ago that would have eliminated a related law. The California law, which is still on the books because of the Governor’s veto, bars anyone who has been a member of the Communist Party in the last five years from being employed by a public school district. That is not an election law but it is a close cousin of other California election laws that bar subversive parties from the ballot and that require candidates to sign an oath that they have not been a member of the Communist Party in the last five years. The laws are not enforced because they have been held unconstitutional, but the legislature hasn’t repealed them.
On July 2, 2010, Chelene Nightingale signed the Oath in front of Charles Deemer and failed to write “no exceptions”
on the oath form. A good question to ask her is why she did not write “no exceptions” on that five year oath? What
does she have to hide?
Sincerely, Mark Seidenberg, Vice Chairman, American Independent Party.
I note an error in my post # 1. The date was not July 2,
2010, but was July 2, 2009.
Sincerely, Mark Seidenberg, Vice Chairman, American Independent Party.
Sounds similar to application of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
Keep suing the MORON election law bureaucrats who DARE to enforce UN-constitutional laws — i.e. bankrupt them to make examples of them.
THEN perhaps the MORON legislatures will repeal the laws involved.
who is excluded in Ohio?
I assume the communists. We also have to sign a document when we work for the state that says we don’t support terrorists, (and they give a list of 60 or so groups, mostly Islamic, but also the Maoists in nepal, and the anarchists in greece. )
we thought about filing a law suit at Ohio University about this, but we never followed through.
How many tests on the candidates in the old West Germany after the nazi regime in 1933-1945 ???
Ohio election law section 3517.07 says, “Un-American Activities of Party” and “bars from the ballot parties that advocate, either directly or indirectly, the overthrow, by force or violence, of our local, state, or national government or which carries on a program of sedition or treason by radio, speech, or press or which has in any manner any connection with any foreign government or power or which in any manner has any connection with any group or organization so connected.”
The law was passed in 1953. I guess television was too new to be included in the law.
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Richard
I think you are correct about the TV. Having worked in
agricultural transportation I can understand such a law,
viz., the 28 Hour Law of 1904, which included Railroad by did not include trucks on the highways.
Sincerely, Mark Seidenberg, Vice Chairman, American Independent Party.
thanks mark !