On August 31, an Arizona voter, Rasean Clayton, sued Kanye West, becasue he is circulating an independent presidential petition in Arizona and he is registered as a Republican in Wyoming. Also, all but one of his candidates for presidential elector in Arizona are registered Republicans. Clayton v West, Maricopa County Superior Court, cv2020-010553. The suit claims the candidates must be registered independents.
Arizona election law 16-341A says, “Any qualified elector who is not a registered member of a political party that is recognized pursuant to this title may be nominated as a candidate for public office” via an independent petition. It seems that West’s registration is irrelevant, because he is not a member of the Arizona Republican Party, because obviously he doesn’t live in Arizona.
As to his candidates for presidential elector, they are free to change their registration from Republican to independent on or before September 4, the date the petition is due and the date it will be submitted. The case has a status conference on September 2. It is peculiar that the plaintiff sued West and his electors, but did not sue any election official.
Many independent presidential candidates in history have been members of the Republican or Democratic Party. Republicans included Robert La Follette in 1924, and John B. Anderson in 1980. Democrats included Lyndon LaRouche, George Wallace, and Eugene McCarthy in 1968. McCarthy appeared on the Arizona November 1968 ballot as a presidential candidate, even though he was not seeking the presidency in the general election and did not ask to be put on the ballot.
Just here for Dumbo’s impending rant.
TYRANT Trump behind this? Something about Biden too.
Some gibberish about something from 1932.
Vague death threat on someone that Richard Winger somehow approves.
More gibberish.
Demo Rep’s upcoming rant in a nutshell.
Wallace wasn’t a Democrat in 1968 since Alabama didn’t (and doesn’t) register by party, and Wallace stopped claiming to be a Democrat once his term as governor lapsed. He was just an “adviser” to Governor Lurleen Wallace, according to him.
2 more juvenile posts by the usual trolls.
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State laws generally only in State – except if extended by inter-state compacts.
Brian, Wallace was a Democrat his entire political career. You are right that Alabama doesn’t have registration by party (most southern states don’t have registration by party). But Wallace established hi8s membership in the Alabama Democratic Party by always choosing a Democratic primary ballot.
NON-morons / trolls / 0.1 IQ parrots might note –
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-court-mass-surveillance-program-221948135.html
U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal
Raphael Satter, Reuters September 2, 2020
(Reuters) – Seven years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans’ telephone records, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful – and that the U.S. intelligence leaders who publicly defended it were not telling the truth.
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During the Obama/Biden LAWLESS TYRANTS SPY regime.
Nonstop Tyrant plans by killer/enslaver statists —
now being worse with Trump 666 biometrics stuff for non-citizens.