On July 12, the Third Circuit refused to reconsider its ruling in Constitution Party v Cortes. The original ruling had said the Constitution, Green and Libertarian Parties of Pennsylvania don’t have standing to challenge any of these election law problems: (1) the failure of some counties to count write-ins, even though the law is clear that all write-in votes are valid; (2) the failure of the state elections department to tally the write-ins that were counted for Cynthia McKinney in November 2008 for President; (3) the law mandating that a party have registration of 15% of the state total before it can avoid petitions for its nominees; (4) the state’s unique system of charging up to $110,000 if a petition is submitted that lacks suficient signatures.
It is somewhat likely that new lawsuits will be filed soon, with slight variations, to make it logically impossible for any honest court to say there is a standing problem. The petition for rehearing had been pending since June 3.
So the court is saying either vote for the Big Ass Party or the Little Ass Party or else don’t bother to vote at all – since your vote won’t be counted unless it can be used to manipulate the outcome between the asses.
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Since when are appointed party hack judges logical about ANY threat to the Donkey/Elephant regimes ???
Good grief! A party doesn’t have standing to challenge a law that makes it financial suicide for its members to attempt to fulfill its fundamental objective of running for office? What does it take to have standing? A personally addressed bill for $110,000 in petition-checking fees that would make the plaintiff too poor to hire a lawyer?
#4 The New Age gerrymander EVIL oligarchs in some States — like PA – are SUPER-EVIL — after getting EVIL worse for decades and decades — regardless of 14th Amdt, Sec. 1.
SCOTUS awaits — to bring down an more obvious 2000 type Bush v. Gore HAMMER on such EVIL morons.
Stay tuned.
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