Indiana has one of the most severe laws for candidates to get on a presidential primary ballot. The law requires 500 signatures from each of the state’s nine U.S. House districts. In 2008, the only Democrats who appeared on the Indiana Democratic presidential primary ballot were Hillary Clinton (who won the state’s primary) and Barack Obama.
The October 8 issues of both the South Bend Tribune and the Howey Politics Weekly are reporting that it appears the Second District petitions for both Clinton and Obama contained many forgeries, so many that it is likely the statewide petitions would have failed if the problems had been brought to light at the time. Although each candidate probably still had the needed 4,500 signatures statewide, the distribution requirement would likely not have been met. Here is the South Bend Tribune story.
Four Republicans qualified for the Indiana presidential primary in 2008: John McCain, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, and Mike Huckabee.
Indiana elections officials do not actually check the names on presidential primary petitions. They merely look at the petitions to see if they appear proper on their face. Thanks to Ryan Nees for this story.
All spread signature stuff is blatantly UN-constitutional — since very obviously each subarea does NOT have the exact same number of actual voters.
Way too difficult for the MORON courts to understand ???
It is interesting that the forged signatures look casually valid, and seem to follow some of the form of the actual signatures.
Funny how the mainstream Democrats and Republicans look the other way when one of their own has flaws in their petition signatures which could keep them off the ballot. If this were a maverick Democrat or Republican or a minor party or independent candidate you’d best believe that a big issue would have been made about these petition signatures and the candidate in question would have been kept off the ballot.
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