As reported earlier, Indiana officials are investigating possible forged signatures in the 2008 petitions to place Barack Obama, and also Hillary Clinton, on the Indiana presidential primary ballot in 2008. Now the McCain petition is also being investigated, with some preliminary reason to believe that petition was also invalid. See this story.
Indiana requires more signatures than any other state for candidates who are discussed in the media to get on the ballot in a presidential primary, except Virginia requires even more. Indiana requires 4,500, and there must be at least 500 from each U.S. House district in the state. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.
But what country was his campaign bus made in?
But these are major parties so I suspect the appropriate response when we are faced with the integrity of these reputable parties is “Please disregard, move along, nothing to see.”
As usual the spread signature stuff is blatantly UN-constitutional since each gerrymander district does NOT have an EQUAL number of voters — on a census day or any other day.
Way too difficult for the zillion State morons to understand.
I argued orally to the Fifth Circuit in 2008 after the Libertarian candidate Bob Barr and the Socialist Party candidate Brian Moore were kicked off the ballot in Louisiana (and Mississippi for the latter) that their alleged transgressions (filing late after a natural disaster and missing the deadline by 5 minutes, respectively) would never be used to disqualify a major party presidential candidate. One of the judges rolled her eyes at me as if I was crazy.