Maine Democrats have challenged both independent presidential petitions submitted early. They say the Kennedy petition has the wrong address for Kennedy’s residence, and that Kennedy submitted too many signatures. They say the Cornel West petitioners sometimes misrepresented the contents of the petition. See this story. The Secretary of State will adjudicate the challenge on Wednesday, August 14.
The qualified parties in Maine are Democratic, Republican, Green, and Libertarian. No Labels was qualified earlier this year but asked to be decertified.
Dems have one excuse after another in these silly lawsuits. What a crazy statement. You should be disqualified because too many people signed your petition !
Since when is there a limit on maximum signature court? That needs to be laughed out of court!
signature count*
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GERRYMANDER FREEDOM CAUCUS REPS
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MAX LIMIT ON SIGS = VALID FOR CANDS FOR SAME OFFICE IN SAME AREA — TO ALLOW OTHER CANDS TO GET ON BALLOTS
Bizarre, indeed. Any party bringing frivolous suits like this to try and block ballot access, need to have their own ballot access revoked for that election, to disincentivize this sort of malarkey.
Thomas W Jones knows all about being laughed out of court.
Does this even make any sense with ranked-choice voting? If anything, Democrats should be happy West is on the ballot as I’m sure many of his voters will give Harris as a later preference. This is just purely anti-democratic and not even strategic.
NY judge ruled that he is off the ballot in NY
This is a flagrant constitutional violation
An attack on our democracy
Can you post an article on this Richard
DemocRats
* demon rats
The Maine challenge against Kennedy has been withdrawn. Kennedy now on Maine ballot because Challenge must be submitted by August 8 deadline. This was the only one against Kennedy. However two challenges vs Cornell West will go forward
Yay!
Actually I don’t care much, but overall more choices are better, even If they don’t accomplish much if anything.
I have to admit i suspect they didn’t want to be laughed out of court.. How could anyone stand there and say i oppose candidate A from being on the ballot because the candidate submitted too many petitions with too many signatures.
Believe it or not, there are such laws.