Posted on 12/02/2023 5:25:06 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is in danger of not appearing on Maine's primary ballot after he fell short of the minimum 2,000 signatures needed from Maine voters to qualify for the state's Republican presidential primary, state officials said Friday.
A letter from Maine's Director of Elections Heidi M. Peckham said Christie's campaign only submitted "844 names certified by municipal registrars." Candidates had to file signatures with the municipal clerks for certification before submitting them to the Secretary of State's office by 5 p.m. Friday.
Christie has five days to appeal the decision in Maine Superior Court.
"The campaign collected and submitted over 6,000 signatures. This is simply a procedural issue with the way they reviewed signatures and is under appeal," a spokesperson for Christie's campaign told CBS News.
As it stands, the Republican candidates who will appear on the GOP primary ballot include former President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, and pastor Ryan Binkley.
On the Democratic side, Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota, who launched his campaign in late October, and President Biden, will be on their party's primary ballot.
The contests are set for March 5, 2024, also known as Super Tuesday, which sees the most state primaries or caucuses on a single day during the election season.
This will be Maine's first presidential primary election conducted under the new semi-open primary law, according to Maine's Secretary of State's office. The unique process allows voters who are registered as unenrolled, with no party affiliation, to vote in any party's primary. If a voter enrolled as a Democrat, Republican, Libertarian or Green Independent wants to vote in another party's primary, they have to leave their current party 15 days before
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Gee- i bet Maine is just bummed out about it
The key to Christy’s campaign is that he gets to keep any leftover election funds. He knows he stands no chance. Same for the others.
Now that there is funny, I don't care who you are! :)
OTOH, if Christie Creme stands anywhere in New Hampshire at high noon his shadow will cover the whole of Maine.
If he paid people to collect 6,000 signatures and only got 844, he got rick rolled by the petition collectors.
Nobody in Maine collects 6,000 signatures to get to 2,000. You have to have them verified locally before submitting them to the state so they had to know that they did not have even close to the umber they needed.
I live here in Maine and I am very involved in Republican activities and I had know idea he was collecting signatures.
He will not be on the ballot in Maine. There is no fixing this. There will be six candidates on the Republican ballot.
In response to the signature shortfall, Christe commented, “It looks like I’ve bitten off more than I could chew.”
Eric Bolling keeps having him on his Newsmax show and Christie continues to prove what a dick he is.
On the ballot or off, he’ll get about the same number of votes so who cares?
Wow. I may not either. Both are about equal in relevance.
Good post.
Chris Christie. A fat ass, Lou Costello look-a-like f’ing RINO.
But at least Lou was funny. And he wasn’t as fat as Krispy.
Like Krispy will still be in the race by then. He's barely in it now.
He was never in the race to begin with. He’s being paid to antagonize Trump.
“Not enough room on the ballot.”
Not enough room in the state. Maine is pretty small.
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