Va. Appeals Court Rules Against Perry and Gingrich’s Attempt to Get on Ballot

ABC News ^ | Jan 17, 2012 5:16pm | Ariane de Vogue

[muawiyah]

Amendment XXIV

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.

Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

So, "primary" is referred to in the 24th Amendment ~ (knocking that one out of the ball park) ~ and whether or not party primaries may be closed, or not, Virginia's Republican primary is not closed. We don't even have party registration here.

Try to keep your comments regarding Virginia within the realm of Virginia possibilities. Stuff that's possible in Massachusetts (I presume you live there) just doesn't go on here.

[trumandogz]

This has nothing to do whatsoever with Amendment XXIV as the XXIV only addresses the prohibition of a poll tax.

The Virginia case is about ballot access in a primary, which is not addressed in the Constitution.

However, I understand that we will continue to have agitators who will go to a Federal Court and beg an Activist Judge to dictate to a state how they should run elections.

We see it now with the Obama administration suing South Carolina for their Voter ID law and we see it now with Rick Perry suing Virginia.

[muawiyah]

Somebody said "Primary" and I addressed the question of whether or not the Constitution said "primary" and lo and behold it says "primary".

You really need to pay attention here.

What the 24th seeks to do is eliminate the poll tax. That is it's purpose. At the same time it makes the term "primary" relevant to the Constitution as a whole ~

[trumandogz]

The Poll Tax has nothing at all to do with this case and the 24th has nothing to do with candidates failing to get enough petition signatures.

[muawiyah]

But it does refer to "primary" doesn't it!

That's the Founders letting the cat out of the bag about OTHER ELECTIONS and processes actually existing that serve to elicit candidates for these great offices from the broad masses of the people.

I think you were arguing, implicitly, that the Constitution takes no official notice of primary elections at the state level ~ which, of course, is just BS.

I'm sure there's some slick lawyer out there who can make a successful argument to the court that what Virginia is up to is effectively a POLL TAX of some sort. Just a matter of time.

[TheOldLady]

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