On June 21, the North Carolina State Board of Elections removed three Constitution Party nominees from the ballot, because they had run in major party primaries for the same office in May. Two are running for county office, and one for the State House of Representatives. Two had run and lost Republican primaries, and one had lost a Democratic primary.
Rick Hasen’s election law blog has a copy of the letter from the State Board, and Hasen also added commentary that the action was brazen and perhaps without precedent. This is because when the party nominated the candidates on June 16, there was no “sore loser” law affecting minor party candidates. The law forbidding such candidacies didn’t exist until June 20, the day the legislature overrode the Governor’s veto of SB 486.
The party will sue to restore ballot position for these three nominees.
The North Carolina Green Party, the other party that nominates by convention, will hold its nominating convention June 23.
Nothing like a good ex post facto law to preserve the two party system
The One Party is united with the Constitution Party on world Earth Day. See the video of California Chair Don Grumman [Constitution], World Libertarian Party CEO Mark Herd [Libertarian] speaking favourably towards One Party system, the United Coalition:
http://www.international-parliament.org/ucc.html
http://electionlawblog.org/?p=99733
Purge letter from regime to the 3.
The letter is issued by the general counsel. You would expect that a decision of that importance would have come from the full board or the executive director, with the counsel providing legal advice. Is the “board” still acting like when it had no board members?
When will the gerrymander hacks have only the hacks of ONE party on the ballots ???
See olde nazi Germany or USSR ONE Party candidates on ballots.
Why should government be permitted to favor the two major parties over any others? Why should the Constitution Party, the Green Party, the Libertarian Party, and the rest be discriminated against?
The two party system does no one any good except the two parties, and it is of no legitimate intereest to the government.
It’s just un-Constitutional!
This should be a straight-forward case for the party to make. Article 1, Section 10 of the Constitution for the United States as ratified lists the actions that are forbidden to be done by the States. One such action is to pass an ex post facto law. This case should be taken to a federal court since it would be based on the U.S. Constitution and not the North Carolina Constitution.
Sorry – ex post facto = criminal stuff only —
NOT retro civil stuff.
The STATISTS use ALL the loopholes — like spiders eating flies.