After the Alabama Secretary of State verified Rocky De La Fuente’s independent presidential petition, he noticed that De La Fuente had run in this year’s Democratic presidential primary, so he has ruled that De La Fuente cannot be on the November ballot.
Lyndon LaRouche also ran in the Democratic presidential primary in 1992 in Alabnama, and he got on the ballot as an independent in November. The sore loser law has not changed in any material way since 1992. The Secretary of State acknowledges that LaRouche was permitted to do that in 1992, but says he does not know why it was allowed in 1992 and has not checked the archives to see if there is an explanation.
Considering the “sore loser” laws were aimed first at Governor George Wallace, I find it ironic Alabama is doing this.
We need a decision on this at the national level.
Would seem that decision could be challenged on the basis that De La Fuente is NOT actually the candidate with actual candidate(s) being a slate of Presidential Electors who have promised to vote for him in the Electoral College vote in December.
The sore loser law would only mean that his delegate candidates in the primary cannot be his elector candidates in the general.