It’s true that anyone who submitted over 15,000 signatures did not get their signatures validated, which meant only Mittney Mouse was exempted from this scrutiny. That’s not even something the law says, it was a party rule. So the party is essentially putting up its own roadblocks to keep certain candidates out that the law doesn’t tell them to.
The big problem I see is that they changed this rule in October, months after they originally said the signatures should start being collected. That violates equal protection, because some candidates may have formed their game plan based on the old rules, while others may not have started putting resources into a plan yet. Every child knows it’s unfair to start playing a game and then having someone change the rules in the middle, especially in a way that could favor one of the players over another. Simply put, if some of the campaigns had known about this rule when the whole thing started, they might have started collecting signatures earlier or saved more money to be able to hit that 15,000 mark.
In the end, I do want this to have been a fair procedure. If it is proven that things are like what you and one other person have related here, then it needs to be set straight.
I’m not in favor of some of the campaigns being gamed here.