Sounds better, but how long does the court have to reach a decision until the ballots are printed, and can there be an appeal?
These documents are parsed in legalese and if one isn’t a lawyer (I am not)it’s easy to have a misunderstanding.
I still think it’s a pretty good bill but I would prefer your word “challenge” to the word “enforce.”
You could “challenge” a “belief” of the SOS but I don’t see how you could reverse his/her/ decision to remove based on “enforcement” of the section.
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When we were working on the Nebraska eligibility bill we tried getting an amendment that would have specifically stated that the challenge had to be filed in expedited state court within a certain timeframe so that the ballots would still be printed on time.
The candidate him/herself knows whether they are eligible, and if the political parties were half as earnest as they should be they would make darn sure that the person they offer up for their members to be able to vote on is eligible. Berg absolutely had a case, absolutely had standing, because if he invested in the DNC and then the DNC only offered him an ineligible candidate, his money was totally wasted and his chance to have his vote count was stolen from him. This is serious doo-doo and Nancy Pelosi and her ilk need to get that through their thick skulls. You don’t screw an entire nation and laugh it off.
So anyway, by the time the national party conventions are held the leadership BETTER know that all the people who could get the nomination are eligible. It is the DNC and RNC that should be BEGGING for a ruling on NBC. They’ve got one chance to get their candidate right, and they sure as shootin’ better be sure they’ve got it right.
I think we need to tell the political parties that WHETHER OR NOT a state requires the documentation, we will not give them one red cent unless they promise, in writing, to make public the documentation for their primary candidates and that they promise to file a lawsuit challenging the eligibility of any candidate from any party whose birth and citizenship records have not been made public, available for public inspection in person.
We may not have a choice whether to pay taxes, but we have a choice whether we contribute to a political party, and by golly they better take our concerns seriously.