Yes, this tactic is used by other candidates to kick people off the ballot, happens a lot here in Illinois. But that’s no excuse, if you do it right you get on the ballot, period, and don’t get thrown off.
He shouldn’t have hired this numb-nuts firm that screwed up, should went with one of the many others who do their job every 2 years with no problems and paid them to collect *at least* twice as many sigs as necessary, I’d go for 3 times as many if it were me.
Good news for Darryl Glenn, if Lamborn’s appeal fails.
I was rooting for Glenn even before Lamborn’s unfortunate screw-up with the ballots. I want Glenn to be elected, be a kick-ass conservative Representative for four years, and then beat Democrat Senator Bennet in 2022.
Lamborn actually did gather like twice as many signatures as he needed, and even after a bunch were thrown out (presumably because they came from persons who were not residents of CO-05) he still had several hundred signatures to spare. His problem was that two his signature-gatherers were not Colorado residents, so all of the signatures gathered and certified by those two out-of-staters had to be thrown out. It never ceases to amaze me how veteran politicians keep managing to mess up this simplest of tasks by hiring signature-gatherers who aren’t qualified and/or commit outright fraud.