Posted on 09/20/2004 6:26:51 PM PDT by MCH
The state's highest court says Ralph Nader should be on the presidential ballot in Maryland after all.
The Court of Appeals ruled Monday afternoon that the state should accept 542 previously rejected signatures that were gathered by Ralph Nader supporters to create a new Populist Party.
The decision reverses a state judge's ruling and would force elections officials to place Nader on the November 2nd ballot in Maryland.
The case turned on a state law specifying that each petition include a county name and that only signatures of voters registered in that county could be counted.
The Nader campaign was required to gather 10-thousand signatures to get on the ballot under a new Populist Party.
But when elections supervisors checked the petitions against voter rolls, they found that some signers weren't registered in the county they signed under.
The court's decision today forces the state to accept 542 invalidated signatures -- enough to meet the 10-thousand requirement.
This is great news. It will give the ultra-libs who want to vote their conscience an outlet for a protest vote, particularly if today's SUSA polling in MD is accurate and Kerry is now tied with Bush (and they think he'll lose anyway).
I'd heard this on the radio on the way home from work, noticed it wasn't posted yet, so searched the Net with Google to find it. Interestingly enough, on the Google results page, there's a "Sponsored Link" in the upper right corner for StopNader.com.
They're organized all right. However, this appears to be just one in a flurry of recent overturnings (including PA) of prior Democrook rulings to keep him off the ballot in a number of states.
Just another trend indicating that the Dims hopes are going down in flames.
Kerry will carry Baltimore City, Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties.
A Democrat bag of crap would carry them. The Rest of Maryland will go Bush.
:-)
Kerry and a "Dem. bag of crap" are one and the same!!
amen and go ralph!
I'd love for Kerry to get under 40% of the popular vote. If it looks like he will lose in a blowout, I bet quite a few RATS will end up voting for Nader instead.
That's right. The Sauerbrey coalition of 22 of 25 counties are solidly Republican.
All Bush has to do is split Montgomery and he can win this thing. Erhlich beat a Kennedy, so the Free State is finally free.
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