Here is today’s story on Presidential candidate ballot access from Yahoo News that quotes our own Richard Winger.
The statement in this story about Virginia’s petition requirement is not quite correct. The petition requirement for both major party candidates getting on primary ballots and third party and independent candidates for POTUS is 5,000 signatures of registered voters, with at least 200 from each of Virginia’s Congressional Districts (currently 11).
Through 2012, the requirement for both was 10,000 total and 400 from each CD. But, the Virginia GOP suffered a major embarrassment in 2012, when only two presidential candidates (Mitt Romney and Ron Paul) made the primary ballot due to the difficult petitioning requirements.
After that, the petition numbers reduction occurred. The Virginia legislature also made the same reduction for the petitions of third party and independent candidates for President, for which the legislature should be given credit for fairness.
Yahoo is FAKE NEWS. Redpath is as pathetic as Winger.
HOW MANY CANDIDATES EVER HEARD OF *BALLOT ACCESS* ???
HOW MANY OF THEM [AND THEIR LAWYERS/ STAFFERS] SUBSCRIBE TO BAN PAPER VERSION ???
ALL MORE REASONS TO ABOLISH THE MINORITY RULE EC.
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Why would candidates who are not going to win subscribing or not subscribing to what they can read on here for free be a reason to turn our country into a Bolshevik hell on earth and start WW3 by abolishing the Electoral College, which saved us from these horrors in 2000 and again in 2016?
God bless and preserve the holy ordained Electoral College. Praise it and glorify it in His Holy Name. AMEN!!!
Fairness? Well, if you think 5,000 lashes is more fair than 10,000 lashes.
That depends on the offense. I do agree we need to bring back public corporal and capital punishment.