Pennsylvania Supreme Court Won’t Put Claudia De La Cruz, Randall Terry, or Cornel West on Ballot

On September 13, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said it is upholding the decision of the Commonwealth Court that petitioning presidential candidates need a full slate of presidential elector candidates. This means that Claude De la Cruz, Randall Terry, and Cornel West, all of whom had enough valid signatures, still can’t be on the ballot.

Pennsylvania has no law saying a full slate is required, and as recently as 1988 there were presidential candidates on the ballot who did not have a full slate of elector candidates.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court as not yet explained its reasoning.


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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Won’t Put Claudia De La Cruz, Randall Terry, or Cornel West on Ballot — 16 Comments

  1. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2024/09/13/pennsylvania-mail-in-ballots-with-flawed-dates-on-envelopes-can-be-thrown-out-court-rules/75211696007/

    Pennsylvania mail-in ballots with flawed dates on envelopes can be thrown out, court rules
    Mark Scolforo
    Associated Press

    Harrisburg, Pa. – Pennsylvania voters could have their mail-in ballots thrown out if they do not write accurate dates on envelopes they use to return them under a state Supreme Court ruling issued Friday that could impact the presidential race.
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    ABS BALLOTS — DATES

    COMBINED WITH SNAIL MAIL >>> FEWER LEGAL BALLOTS — TO GET COUNTED IN PA ???

  2. P 12 AMDT ELECTORS CASE-

    ONE MORE REASON TO ABOLISH THE WORSE INSANE EC AND ALL ITS MACHINATIONS / LOOPHOLES / ROT

  3. This is the same State Supreme Court that allowed them to count 2020 ballots after the deadline even if they had no postage date.

    That blatantly violated Pennsylvania law and was the clearest case of legislating from the bench that I’ve ever seen.

    They are NOT going to explain their reasoning, at least not sufficiently, because they are trying to rig the election again.

  4. That is INSANE. I guess the duopoly was more sane back in 1988 because they at least respected democracy (more) back then.

  5. Does Pennsylvania actually provide 19 write-in spaces for presidential electors? This is in statute, but maybe they don’t follow the law in Pennsylvania.

    If so, then voters can vote for individual electors, and each elector might have a different number of votes. It is an overvote if you vote for a presidential candidate AND write-in some electors. But there should not be any problem writing in the name of 18 Democrat electors and not voting for Harris/Walz.

    The statute with regard to presidential popular votes says that all electors affiliated with a presidential candidate are deemed to receive the same number of votes. If De La Cruz only had 13 elector candidates, then those 13 would receive that many votes.

    The Top 19 elector candidates are elected. There is no requirement that they receive the same number of votes or support the presidential candidate. It might be tactically unwise for De La Cruz, but that does not make it illegal.

  6. All this goes away under Max Standing Count. Voting access would consist of one or more supporters of a party (or candidate, so long as candidate elections still occur) showing up to vote on election night.

    X, party of one, your section of the voting hall is now ready.

  7. Easiest thing in the world now to prevent a presidential candidate from being on the ballot in Pennsylvania. Simply show up at a few meetings, pretend to be interested then volunteer to be a presidential elector. Then deliberately mess up your elector candidate affidavit (very easy to do) and poof that presidential candidate can’t be on the ballot.

  8. Stifling democracy. That’s the history of the current Democratic Party, beginning with the party’s attempts to keep the late Eugene McCarthy off the ballot in the swing state of New York back in 1976 and in their efforts to keep Ralph Nader off the ballot in numerous states in 2004 and even more perversely and often frivolously to challenge RFK’s candidacy in state after state in this election cycle.

    The Trump campaign hasn’t tried to keep anyone off the ballot.

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