Posted on 03/10/2016 1:30:49 PM PST by kevcol
An attorney representing Republican presidential hopeful John Kasich told a courtroom Wednesday that the Ohio governor's campaign did not submit enough valid signatures to meet Pennsylvania's ballot requirements. .
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Otter reportedly admitted that of the 2,184 signatures the governor's campaign submitted to appear on the state's ballot, 192 were not valid.
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What does this mean in terms of primary?
OOpsie~
No fraud, no scandal. You do need x number of signatures, and you HAVE TO get them on the paper.
x-1 is not enough, if you have a campaign. True, it should be x+15,000, but the principle remains.
It’s not going to happen, I’m sure ballots have been printed, what will they do draw a line through his name with a sharpie, come on get real!
Brilliant
State party bosses use this ploy to keep candidates off the ballot. They did this to Newt Gingrich in 2012 in Virginia to keep him off the ballot because he had a large lead in the polls over Mitt Romney.
His own attorney argued that his client isn't eligible?
This story has been hitting headlines for a week- I wonder if it will ever happen.
After Tuesday he won’t have to worry about Pennsylvania.
Well...rules are rules! The other candidates made sure they met the burden.
For starters the man challenging his signatures has been identified as a Rubio supporter.
The GOPe is in the tank for Rubio led by Senator Pat Toomey, who turned out more liberal than we were led to believe.
The insiders still want Rubio.
Pennsylvania’s GOPe will allow 14 of the 71 delegates to be bound on first ballot to the popular vote winner.
The delegate election is a separate part of the ballot, three elected in each of the 18 congressional districts all listed without reference to any of the presidential candidates.
Local cronies run with the best name recognition and uusually dominate delivering most delegates to the Establishment.
The only way around it is 18 separate campaigns to elect a slate in each district loyal to a presidential candidate.
Very incompetent mistake...someone really screwed up.
Kasich could have been kept off in Illinois, but nobody pulled the trigger for fear their petitions would come up short. Also, everybody was thinking, let’s not get nasty. But, when things get real, the elbows come out.
The objection wins on two counts: (1) the law is murky. 5 pm might have been understood in the past or closing of the office might have been understood in the past. If the latter (closing of the office), electronic filing means the deadline is now 12 pm. (2) if is admitted that the number of signatures is deficient. So, it was a false filing to begin with.
The excess above 2,000 was NEVER going to hold up. Nobody has such a high validity rate when collecting petition signatures. You absolutely need a 15 percent margin, and a 30 percent margin is recommended. I am sure Trump filed double or triple the number of signatures, and Cruz maybe near the overage of Trump. That’s because Trump and Cruz have grassroots support. The establishment candidates have difficulty finding signatures. They’re all donor-driven.
OOpsie~
No fraud, no scandal. You do need x number of signatures, and you HAVE TO get them on the paper.
x-1 is not enough, if you have a campaign. True, it should be x+15,000, but the principle remains.>>> and these are usually handled by professional petition companies.
“I’m sure ballots have been printed”
We have electronic voter fraud here in Taxilvania...makes things much easier for the rats.
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