Posted on 10/13/2004 1:53:39 PM PDT by neutrality
HARRISBURG, Pa. - A state court knocked Ralph Nader (news - web sites) off Pennsylvania's presidential ballot on Wednesday, citing thousands of fradulent signatures including "Mickey Mouse" and "Fred Flintstone."
Describing the petitions as "rife with forgeries," Commonwealth Court President Judge James Gardner Colins said that fewer than 19,000 of the more than 51,000 signatures that Nader's supporters submitted were valid. Nader needed at least 25,697 to be listed on the ballot as an independent candidate.
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Those aren't fraudulent signatures. Mickey Mouse and Fred Flintstone are big Nader supporters.
Why? At whom are the naderites pi*sed off for this removal?
- The Rats.
Importantly, were similar high standards applied to the Democrats?
Geez, a state court that actually worries about forgeries in Pennsylvania????!!! What a concept. Obviously the only forgeries they concern themselves with involve those that work against the Democrats!
Cant they still write him in? I mean it is a little more work but they are not all lazy DIMocRATS
I'm disenfrachised! I'll sue! What's John Edwards's phone number?
Oh, I see. Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck are only allowed to vote Democratic.
It was the Rats who did the dirty work.
Donald Duck is a Libertarian. You can tell because he never wore pants, even when his three nephews were visiting. :o)
They're dead! Course their vote will be counted Democratic!
PA is a lost cause now - Bush could win NJ if he mounted an effort there. The 9-11 issue is important in parts of the state where people commute to Manhattan. And alot of NYers moved to NJ after 9-11, Rudy could campaign in those parts of the state with Bush. And there is alot of resentment towards McGreevey.
Isn't he still in court there? He got 3% of the vote last time around and even 1% could help this time.
I figured he was a Deanie. He would get excited and do that non-understandable scream-quacking.
Last I heard he was off http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1229804/posts
You know - I think it would be better for the election process if all this was taken care of a lot earlier -
A date for cut off needs to be set in order to give enough time to discover this stuff - think of what this will do to the ABs - if they are held up too long -
I'd say that by Sept. at the latest all matters as to names on the ballots should be closed. All the forms having been submitted well in advance
just a thought -
As of yesterday a federal judge refused to overturn Sec. of State Blackwell's decision to keep him off the ballot. No Nader in Ohio unless it's appealed.
That doesn't pass the laugh test.
This sounds like a DNC setup to me. They've been pulling these kinds of stunts all over the country to keep Nader off the ballot.
Maybe Republicans and Libertarians should be rallying to keep the rabid communist on the ballot :) That's the REAL reason the DemonRats don't want him on. He cuts WAY, WAY TOO DEEP into their real base of support. He tends to divide the DNC Communist party a bit too much...
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