Georgia Loses Again on Govt-Photo-ID Issue

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On July 12, U.S. District Court Judge Harold Murphy again ruled that requiring a government-issued photo ID to vote at the polls violates the U.S. Constitution. Common Cause v Billups, 4:05-cv-201. Last year the same judge had thrown out an earlier version of the law. Since then, the legislature had amended the requirement to say that indigents can get a free state ID. However, evidence in the newer case showed that several hundred thousand Georgia adult citizens lack any government photo ID, and the primary is on July 18.

The July 12 ruling is 193 pages long.

A state court had also enjoined the law last week, and the State Supreme Court had refused to lift the injunction. The primary will now be held under the old, old rules, requiring ID but not necessarily a government-photo-ID.

Self-Styled Nazi Wins Republican Primary for Montana Legislature by Default

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On June 6, Montana held its primary. Republican voters in the 76th state house district (Butte) nominated Shawn Stuart by default, since no one else was running. Stuart holds himself out as the Montana leader of the National Socialist Movement. The NSM describes itself as “the American Nazi Party”. The Republican Party has since disavowed Stuart and is asking voters to vote for the incumbent Democratic state legislator, Jon Sesso. The district is strongly Democratic anyway.

The NSM says it will run a presidential candidate in 2008, but has not said whether its presidential candidate will run in major party primaries, or in the general election. No political party that holds itself out as a “Nazi” party has ever run a presidential candidate. But the National States Rights Party, which has always had similar doctrines, ran a presidential candidate in 1960 and 1964.

Bill Scheurer on Illinois Ballot

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Bill Scheurer, the nominee of the Moderate Party for U.S. House in the 8th district of Illinois, is safely on the ballot. Even though Democrats fraudulently tricked him into hiring a paid petition circulator who then deliberately failed to produce any signatures (so that he didn’t have enough signatures to meet the requirement of 13,950 signatures), no one challenged his petition. Scheurer has received $35,000 in contributions from labor unions. Labor unions have refused to endorse the Democratic nominee, Melissa Bean, since she voted in favor of CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement). Scheurer is also opposed to U.S. involvement in Iraq, whereas Bean favors it.

If Scheurer gets as much as 5% of the vote, the Moderate Party will then be ballot-qualified for 2008 (but only for the purpose of running a nominee for U.S. House in the 8th district in 2008).

It seems likely that Scheurer wasn’t challenged, because he sued the individuals who tricked him, alleging fraud. Now that he is on the ballot, he will drop that lawsuit, Moderate Party v Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. However, other co-plaintiffs who were challenged will carry on the lawsuit.

Pro-Write-in Ruling in Ohio

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On July 11, the Summit County, Ohio District Attorney ruled that ballots are a public record. Therefore, declared write-in candidates who were told they got zero write-ins, are free to examine the ballots in their district, to see if elections officials corruptly refused to tally write-ins.

Elections officials had earlier refused to let the candidates see the ballots. They claimed that unless the candidates filed for recounts (which costs a lot of money) the ballots are not public records.

In Summit County, at the May 2, 2006 primary, 28 different declared write-ins candidates for party office were told they got zero write-ins. The candidates all voted for themselves and had friends who also say they cast write-ins, so the credibility of the elections officials is low at this point.