On August 14, the Republican Party of New Jersey notified a federal court that it wishes to intervene in Leguia v Caldwell, 3:26cv-10263. This is the lawsuit over the constitutionality of the ban on out-of-state petitioners. The Republican Party seeks to defend the ban.
Those dirty rotten scoundrels. The court in New Jersey already threw out the ban on out of state petition circulators in New Jersey on major party primary petitions, and I know for sure that Republican candidates in New Jersey have used out of state petition circulators. These people are hypocrites.
I suspect the Democrats will be next to intervene in favor of the ban. Using lawfare to cripple third parties and Independents is something both ruling parties agree on.
Good. Republicans finally taking a stand against fraud.
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Stop out of state invaders. We are a republic. States have total control of their elections. Out of state signature gatherers should not be allowed. They are invaders, carpetbaggers and interlopers. The state of New Jersey should be allowed to set its own rules and not be subject to put of state invaders. Uphold the 10th Amendment. No one is being denied their 1st Amendment right. Voting and the electoral processs is not a fundamental right. The electoral process is a function of voting. The original U.S. Constitution does not establish a universal, affirmative right to vote for its citizens. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 should be abolished.
In conclusion, the state of New Jersey has the right to determine who has the right to participate in their electoral process. The electoral process starts with the collection of signatures to get on the ballot and ends with the votes of the people of New Jersey. Why should invaders to the state be allowed to take part in part of their process? Now people who are from out of state have the right to speak freely about New Jersey politics and arent denied their right to speak. However they dont have the right to participate in their electoral process. Meaning if they cant vote in their elections they shouldn’t be able to collect signatures for a campaign. All part of the electoral process.
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Lost Hope, do you also want to make it illegal for New Jersey candidates to hire out-of-state attorneys, or campaign consultants, or accountants, or speech-writers?
As for the term “invaders”, the out-of-state petitioners used in this lawsuit were from New York, right across the Hudson River from New Jersey.
New Yorkers cannot and should not be voting in New Jersey elections, nor petitioning for them. Double that when the candidate is a fat communist chick.
@Richard Winger it is up to the state of New Jersey. We are supposed to be a republic. The electoral process should be decided by the state of New Jersey. The electoral process is a mechanism for democracy. In my opinion campaign funds should only be from in state contributions. Just like federal government doesnt allow foreign contributions. The state should have its own autonomy. Attorneys, advisors and consultants are ancillary not essential functional part of a campaign. Canvassing can be from out of state as long as there are no official documents signed. Teh required parts of a campaign should be from state residents.
Fin
If New Jersey only wants New Jersey citizens to be able to gather petition signatures for ballot access they need to secede from the USA and become a seperate country. Until they do this they are goung to have to deal with out of state petition circulators. American citizens can travel anywhere in the USA and they do not give up their free speech rights when they enter different jurisdictions within the USA from where they regularly reside.
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Andy just wants money from petitioning. He doesn’t care about New Jersey.
It should be up to each qualified party to decide whether or not to accept petitioners from out of state for their own candidate petitions.
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And, if political parties want it, it should be okay for intergalactic warriors to collect signatures on their candidate nomination papers, as well.
Should illegal aliens be able to collect signatures? Basically out of state signature collectors are equivalent to illegal aliens. Without being a New Jersey resident and without being a New Jersey voter they should not be able to take part in the New Jersey electoral process. Dammit we are republic. You all are federalists who know nothing of our constitution.
Look at the big picture: partisan nominations are the right of political parties. They should be able to make them any way they want: conventions, voter caucuses, legislative caucuses, filing fees, open or closed primaries, nomination papers, signed by whomever they want (or don’t want), collected by whatever means and/or persons they want (or don’t want). The political nomination process is an inherent associational right of a political party. The state should not control it.
Out of state petition circulators who are American citizens are not in New Jersey illegally. American citizens can travel anywhere in the USA without permission, and they (we) do not give up our right to free speech when traveling to different jurisdictions in the USA.
Comparing American citizens traveling to another state and engaging in the free speech activity of asking somebody to sign a ballot access petition to an illegal alien, a person whose presence in the country is illegal is completely absurd.
@Andy… People carry their 1st Amendment right wherever they go in America, true. However, they dont have the right to take part in the electoral process in any state wherever they go. They cant vote in New Jersey and should not be able to physically be able to collect signatures in New Jersey. Both are individual acts in taking part of the electoral process. They shouldn’t be poll workers either. If the courts are smart they will side with the state and not allow out of state invaders to interfere with New Jersey’s states rigts.
This must fail otherwise I’ll have to look for actual job!
Asking a person to sign a petition is not voting. A petition circulator asking a person to sign a petition is no more taking part in an election than a person from anywhere in the USA advocating for or endorsing a candidate or ballot issue in another state from where they reside, or if a news reporter reporters on an election or interviews a candidate or a campaign spokesperson from a different state where they reside.
Should only in-state residents be allowed to make endorsements? Should only in-state residents be allowed to report on an election? Should only in-state television or radio stations be able to run political advertisements? Should only in-state print shops be able to make political signs or fliers or door hangers? Should campaigns only be allowed to hire in-state campaign management and in-state GOTV (Get Out The Vote) canvassers?
The answer to all of the above is no and the same principle applies to petition circulators, both paid and volunteer.
@Hobo that is an extreme take but funny as hell.
@Andy circulating a petition is a function of the process, so is voting. Everything else you mention is ancillary. I draw the line here and foreign invaders should not interfere with New Jersey electoral process. You forget we are a republic. States determines their destiny not federal rules.
Fin
Filing out campaign finance reports is also part of the process. Should candidates not be able to hire campaign staff or have volunteer campaign staff fill out their campaign finance reports if they do not regularly reside in the same state as the candidate?
It would be absurd to say that candidates must only have in-state residents fill out their campaign finance reports, just as it is absurd to say that only in-state residents can ask people to sign ballot access petitions.
Andy is just mad he would have to get a real job if more states correctly ban out of staters from running their elections.
@andy I dont think out of state money should be allowed. Campaign staff is ancillary and should be able to hire out of state workers and canvassers. But the actual signing of official documents should only be of in state residents.