This news story says that some witnesses assert that Kanye West’s independent presidential petition in Wisconsin was filed 18 seconds too late. The individual filing the papers was in front of the state elections office before 5 p.m., but the door was locked and she had to phone the office to be let in. By the time she was in the correct office inside the building, and was handing over the papers, it was 18 seconds past 5 p.m. However, a reasonable interpretation, especially in the time of government buildings that are locked during business hours, is that filing is timely if the filer is at the front door. By analogy, voters who arrive at the door of a polling place at the moment of closing are permitted to vote, even if the line prevents them from actually voting by the closing hour.
Under the legal principal of deminimus, any such delay of a matter of seconds that was the result of the state’s own actions of locking the door too early is excusable and the petition should be accepted as filed.
I agree petition should be accepted. However, in Illinois the rule is you have to be filed and in the computer by 5 p.m. This is because it used to be people would play games as to who would be last to file to get last ballot position, but if you actually filed 2 seconds after 5, your filing was no good. So, law was changed and anyone who files between 4 and 5 is put in a lottery for last ballot position, which is considered next best ballot position after first when there is a long list of candidates.
And I bet he was unable to answer how many days old he was.
Some buildings are locked before individual offices inside get closed. We’ve run into that any number of times in different states.
MORONS love to play last second games
— thrilling part of being a MORON
— with or without calendars, clocks and watches.
Don’t be so hard on the kayne campaign. They may be developmentally challenged but they are working hard and their moms like them.
Wikipedia cites this. That is ok but Wikipedia is a joke website. Lots of funky stuff, sneaky jokes inserted, etc.