On December 21, a Maine state trial court upheld the decision of the Secretary of State that the petition to put Chris Christie on the Republican presidential primary ballot is invalid. Christie submitted 6,000 signatures to meet a requirement of 2,000, but he didn’t segregate them by towns. See this story. Thanks to Michael Drucker for this news.
UPDATE: this story is more detailed.
His campaign hires paid petition circulators and I know they paid out a lot of money. Whoever they hired must have done a loysey job.
Lousey.
Lousy and lazy. No soup for Christie.
This is a bridge too far!
A better detailed account of exactly how the Christie campaign screwed this up is at the Bangor Daily News: https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/12/22/politics/chris-christie-disqualified-maine-ballot/
Christie did not “separate petition forms by town, as instructed by the Secretary, or, in the alternative, give himself sufficient time to bring those multi-town signature sheets to the relevant municipalities before the November 20 deadline,” Superior Court Justice Julia M. Lipez said Thursday, according to a report from CBS News.
Presidential primary candidates must file at least 2,000 signatures with the secretary of state’s office to appear on the ballot. Christie’s campaign reportedly turned in 844.
Christie still has time before Dec. 26 to file as a write-in candidate with the Maine Secretary of State’s office.
So, they didn’t get the signatures approved by municipalities in time. This is amateur-hour stuff.
Whoever they used for petitioning probably has never worked in Maine before, as keeping only one municipality per sheet is just rule #1 here, as it makes the task of getting municipal clerks to verify the signatures so much easier.
They made more work for themselves to the point of not being able to get it done.
Apparently this commenting system doesn’t use blockquote.
The 2nd through 4th paragraphs above are direct quotes from the BDN news article linked to in the 1st.
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2 AT LARGE EC VOTES PLUS 2 GERRYMANDER REP DIST EC VOTES
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HOW MANY COMPUTERS/ LAWYERS NEEDED TO KEEP TRACK OF BALLOT ACCESS MACHINATIONS ???
Your not a lawyer. Must be a conputer.
ONE MORE REASON FOR ONE PERSON FORMS
That your a bot? If you kill a whole forest of trees to make forms you can’t submit them at a Wal-Mart in New Brunswick if they are supposed to be submitted to town clerks in Maine.
New Hampshire and Florida have used one signature forms, and maybe still do, but it doesn’t prevent similar problems.
One person forms is fucking retarded.
That’s why the Retard Party is using them in every state whether it’s legal or not.
HOW MANY ONE PERSON CHECKS — FOR ONE PERSON CREDIT CARD BILLS AND OTHER BILLS – INCLUDING TAX BILLS ???
TOO MANY TROLL MORONS TO COUNT — WITH THEIR MANY 10S OF FAKE NAMES — UP TO 200 YET FROM SAME ONE TROLL MORON — WHO INVENTS NEW FAKE NAMES WITH EACH DAY AND STORY ???
Not the same thing, fake name troll moron. The rest is baseless speculation. However, even there, checks will not cash if they are not sent to the correct recipient or taken somewhere that doesn’t cash checks to cash.
I want to know what happened to the one signature Jones Santos form I signed which was taped to a port a potty wall in Kennebunkport, ME. It’s not there anymore. The town clerks office never got it. Where did it go?
I tried to deposit a check in a Pepsi vending machine the other day but it didn’t work. All I wanted was a Pepsi. And they wouldn’t give it to me.