Earnest Ray Calhoon, a Democrat running for California Assembly, 79th district, has been disqualified from the June primary ballot because of a supposed flaw with his petition. Candidates for legislature in California need 40 signatures to get on a primary ballot. Some of the signers for Calhoon let the circulator fill in the address blank, instead of doing it themselves. Calhoon has filed a state court lawsuit to get back on the ballot. Calhoon v Weber, 26WM000063, Sacramento Superior Court.
That’s called fraud. Good thing it got caught.
The rule on California petitions has always been everything in the signers own hand as far as I remember.
Nothing wrong with disqualifying demon rats.
States need to make ballot qualification more “fees-able”, and less dependent on petition filing.
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The obvious is all too often overlooked.
@WZ,
The filing fee for the Assembly is $1346.94 (it is based on a percentage of the salary). California requires a filing fee with 40 signatures (60 signatures for statewide office). The apparent intent is to demonstrate some support. Back when California had partisan nominations, an independent candidate would have to collect tens of thousands of signatures.
There is no ‘a’ in Ernest.
His lawyer hit the trifecta by misspelling his client’s name, as well as that of both defendants, Shirely Weber (sic) and Shawn Browm (sic).