For a month, the Peace & Freedom Party has been trying to persuade the California Secretary of State to print the presidential candidates the party desires, on the party’s June 5, 2012 presidential primary ballot. The Secretary of State refuses to list Peta Lindsay. Initially she refused to list Stephen Durham, but she relented, for him. Here is a letter the party’s attorney sent last week. It quotes the Secretary of State’s statements to various courts that she does not investigate any presidential candidate to evaluate whether he or she meets the constitutional qualifications.
Peta Lindsay’s campaign is bigger than Stephen Durham’s campaign. Lindsay has already obtained ballot access in one other state, whereas Durham has not.
Where is the PSL on the ballot already?
In Vermont, the petition putting Peta Lindsay on the ballot has 2,400 signatures. Only 1,000 are needed.
Also the PSL is the only ballot-qualified party in Florida with “socialist” or “socialism” in its name. But just because the PSL is on the ballot in Florida, it doesn’t follow logically that Peta Lindsay is already on the ballot in Florida.
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