Merry Christmas, Jim and all. Re-post my prior comment from another thread:
If just addressses, the omitted candidates could be succesful with a Court challenge. Courts generally rule that the law doesn’t “elevate form over substance”. Beyond that, they usually rule in favor of voter participation. If the petition omissions are purely technical (e.g. no addresses)– the omitted candidates should go to Court as a class- and request relief that they be allowed to amend the petitions to include the addresses. (Don’t think one can add names at this point).
All omitted candidates must join- can’t be just one. That will leave Romney and the State GOP to argue against inclusion– not a great argument when likely 70% of the GOP voters favor other candidates.
Smiling!
I just pinged you, hoping you would repost here on this thread!!!
AND there is plenty of time to get this done!
I hope the Newt and Perry go for it!
We have to be careful here, lest we set a precedent that could undermine our efforts on Voter ID.
This entire VA process reeks.
How could a guy who served as Lt Gov and then 3 consecutive terms as Governor and who championed Voter ID suddenly be in the cross hairs with accusations that over 50% of his collected signatures are bogus?
I don’t believe it for a minute.
I think this entire charade is being used to discredit our entire party.
5 out of 7 of our candidates are so weak or crooked that they can’t get on the ballot?
WTF?
I have great hopes that Newt will challenge any law that says there cannot be write-ins. Something is critically wrong when people outside of the establishment procedures lose their representation.
“All omitted candidates must join- can’t be just one. That will leave Romney and the State GOP to argue against inclusion– not a great argument when likely 70% of the GOP voters favor other candidates.”
Makes a lot of sense!
Merry CHRISTmas!