It’s another gambit by Trump to push the SAVE America through Congress. The Independent, and its interviewees, are not impressed.
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Pennsylvania is one of several well known “challenge” states for petitioning. That is, petitions that turn in a total number of signatures at least equal to the number of valid signatures required are presumed to have enough signatures, unless the signatures are challenged by voters (usually put up to it by politicians or political parties). This process is used to scare potential political challengers off the ballot.
This Independent Political Report article covers three ongoing petition challenges in Pennsylvania.
This doesn’t really have anything to do with ballot access but is interesting nonetheless. There have been very few townhalls held this year by Republican members of Congress, and a lot held by Democratic members of Congress.
Here is the story from MS Now.
Thanks to politicalwire.com for letting us know about this.
Thanks again to Missouri Independent for publishing this story.
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