Mary Norwood is an independent candidate for President of the Fulton County, Georgia Commission. She needs approximately 22,000 signatures by July 13.
When she began petitioning, she was told in writing that she could photocopy her own petition forms, instead of simply using government-furnished petition blanks. She was also told that her forms could have “Fulton County” pre-printed in the blank that asks for the jurisdiction.
After her volunteers had collected 8,000 signatures using those forms, she was told that her petition sheets are not valid, and that each voter must in his or her own hand-writing write the word “Fulton County” next to that voter’s signature. On June 21 she filed a lawsuit in state court to recover the 8,000 signatures. She has hired paid circulators and they are using the government-printed forms. See this story. Her lawsuit is Norwood v Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections, 2010-cv-18725. Here is her Complaint and here is the Motion for an Emergency Hearing. UPDATE: see this story in the Atlanta Progressive News of June 24.
Simple — try and go to court regarding ALL election stuff — laws, regs, bureaucrats, etc. etc. — and get declaratory judgements — part of the cost of being in the election business.
This is one more case of having a MORON candidate asking MORON election law bureaucrats *legal* questions about election law stuff.
Asking such questions is absolutely worthless — since the MORON bureaucrats are legal MORONS about such legal questions and routinely give out WRONG answers.
Such bureaucrats can barely give out blank forms.
New Age ballot access stuff is like engaging in W-A-R.
You better know what you are doing — the special interest party hack gangsters have armies of lawyers stopping ALL threats to the minority rule gerrymander regimes.