The Russian government is barring Aleksei Navalny from the March 2018 presidential ballot because he was once convicted of a crime. In the United States, it would not be possible for the government to keep anyone of the ballot for federal office because he or she was once convicted of a crime. The U.S. Constitution sets forth the qualifications to run for federal elective office, and neither the states, nor the federal government, can add to those qualifications.
This is why California Governor Jerry Brown was correct this year to veto SB 149, which barred presidential candidates from the ballot if they did not release their tax returns. And this is why it was wrong for Pennsylvania, Alabama and Arkansas to keep Rocky De La Fuente off the ballot in 2016 on the grounds that he had sought the Democratic presidential nomination earlier that year, and why it was wrong for Michigan to do the same thing to Gary Johnson in 2012.
Past presidential candidates in the United States, who were not barred from the ballot in any state because they were felons or ex-felons, include Eugene Debs, Vincent Hallinan, and Lyndon LaRouche.
Qualifications for voters [ie citizen, 18 plus) = Qualifications for officers —
to stop the HACKS fron statutory machinations.
Obviously IF a candidate is a murderer, traitor, insane, etc., THEN the other candidates can rave about it.
In the US candidates are excluded from the ballot for the crime of not soliciting enough petition signatures and other fabricated “qualifications” which are as effective as if they were felony convictions.
Hallinan was the only one before and after his 1952 run for president. First, contempt of court, the tax evasion.
Should read, “then tax evasion”. My bad.