Also wouldn't the challenge be to putting the candidate on the November ballots? Primaries were a different thing -- not even sure if in them one was voting for the candidate, or just for the delegates to a political party's convention.
Also wouldn't the challenge be to putting the candidate on the November ballots? Primaries were a different thing -- not even sure if in them one was voting for the candidate, or just for the delegates to a political party's convention.
Good thing somebody is paying attention. The relief sought is an order to the state official who certifies election results to decertify the delegates previously certified as having been elected to the National Convention as McCain delegates.
The idea is that perhaps you could start a similar action to decertify delegates elected as Obama delegates to the Dem Convention. Pretty late to get real relief from that source.
I have previously speculated that the actions with respect to the McCain delegates were filed, not because plaintiff expected to get heard but to affect the Credentials process at the Republican National Convention.
The thrust of the McCain actions you see is that these delegates have been elected to vote for someone who is not eligible to hold the office, thereby wasting the state's franchise at the national convention.
After the election, a similar action might lie against those electors chosen to vote for a candidate.
Legal action to bring this to a head is likely to be tricky. Who has standing? At what point is there actionable harm to plaintiff with available legal relief--a case or controversy?