UPDATE: On September 24, the Georgia Supreme Court heard the case on whether independent presidential candidates need petitions from each candidate for presidential elector. If so, the petitions for Claudia De la Cruz and Cornel West are invalid, even though both candidates followed the advice of the Secretary of State. West v Wittenstein, S25A0178.
The oral argument went badly for the two candidates, but there is no decision yet. An earlier version of this post erroneously said the two candidates had already lost.
Some Georgia ballots have already been printed with those presidential candidates’ names on the ballot.
In the past, independent presidential candidates did petition for themselves in Georgia, and their presidential elector candidates did not petition. But the law was re-worded in 2017. The law is very murky but the plaintiff parties could not point to past practice in Georgia, because the new law is different from the old law.
The last states that required individual candidates for presidential elector to submit their own petitions were Minnesota and Wisconsin, but both states reformed their process over 70 years ago.
Insane court ruling. This needs to go to the US,Supreme Court.
That’s crazy. Ideally the US Supreme Court would overrule that.
Good likely ruling. Every elector should have to petition separately, and they should be required to qualify the full slate to be on the ballot. Let’s keep them off.
The U.S. Supreme court won’t help you. It hasn’t helped minor parties in over 30 years.
Anti-democratic Radley can’t stand that this anti-democratic BS isn’t used against honorable activist Dr. Stein, who IS on the Georgia ballot.
We’ll get her next time, and her little Muslim pet too! Bwahahaha!
The individual petition circulators should also have to petition for the right to petition.
And the individual signers should have to petition for the right to sign a petition. We have so many democratic ways to democratically save democracy!
I already marked West on my overseas ballot and am dropping it off at the US Embassy in Panama tomorrow. Will I be a disenfranchised voter?
Yes. Thankfully!
GA – STILL IN 1860 OR BEFORE
SEND NEW AGE GEN. SHERMAN IN TO LIBERATE IT FROM STATIST FREAKS
EARLIER 1864-1865 GEN SHERMAN DID NOT WIPE OUT ENOUGH GA SLAVERS/MORONS.
Regardless of what you think about the prospective ruling, it should have been made waayyy ahead of the election if they wanted to apply it this cycle.
If they want to introduce it in 2028, that’s one thing, but to try and force it retroactively, as if West and de la Cruz should somehow have known better than to listen to the secretary of state, seems inane.
I agree with yelling and screaming. We need a real genocide of white people in the former confederate states, not just a population replacement through mass immigration and interracial relationships and rapes leading to multiracial children.
I only disagree with using statist as a pejorative. There’s nothing wrong with being a statist. Everyone should be a statist, like it or not.
Applying the ruling retroactively is the whole point, as it should be. Had they done the elector petitions, the ruling should have been that they should have just done the presidential petition. Whatever it takes to keep them off!
Democrats Saving Democracy: excellent suggestions!