On July 30, the Constitution Party submitted 3,452 signatures to place its nominee, Phil Hudok, on the ballot in West Virginia’s U.S. House race, district two. The 2nd district is the district that includes Charleston, and which has a Republican incumbent, Shelly Capito.
The Constitution Party’s petition is the first petition in West Virginia submitted by any minor party or independent candidate for U.S. House since 1982, when the Socialist Workers Party successfully petitioned for one U.S. House seat in that state.
Although the Libertarian Party had nominees on the West Virginia ballot for U.S. House in 1998 and 2000, and although the Mountain Party had a nominee for U.S. House in 2004, those candidates did not need to petition, because their parties were already ballot-qualified at the time.
Hudok needs 2,582 valid signatures. The state says it will have his petitions checked by August 13. Thanks to Jeff Becker for this news. The Hudok petition drive would never have been attempted if the 2009 legislature had not cut the requirement from 2% of the last vote cast, to 1%.
We were told that the signatures would be sent to their respective counties on Monday (tomorrow, Aug 2), and that we should know the results by the following week. I took that to mean that Friday the 13th would be a reasonable date to call back… gives ’em a week-and-a-half to count. The most signatures we had in any one county was 1063 in Kanawha (Charleston area), followed by 737 (Jackson), 455 (Berkeley), 416 (Upshur), 233 (Lewis), 188 (Randolph), and only handfulls for the remaining dozen counties. It’s doable by then.
1. Separate is NOT equal — even in the WV hills.
Brown v. Bd of Ed 1954
2. Every election is NEW and has ZERO to do with earlier elections – i.e. NO hereditary stuff.
Man, the CP is growing everywhere!
3 months till the election doesn’t give the CP much time.
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