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To: Night Hawk; All
"State Democrats succeeded in kicking the Green Party off the ballot in Montana this week, with the Montana Supreme Court ruling that they must be dropped."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

To the best of my understanding, prohibiting people from appearing on state ballots for POTUS is a violation of the 12th Amendment, that amendment putting only one limit on who electors can vote for.

Excerpted from the 12th Amendment: "The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President [emphasis added], and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice- President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate; […]"

Note that political parties or politically correct state primaries are defined by the Constitution.

Send "Orange Man Bad" federal and state government desperate Democrats home in November!

Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping SARS-CoV-2 will effectively give fast-working Trump a "third term" in office imo.

21 posted on 08/21/2020 12:19:00 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Amendment10
prohibiting people from appearing on state ballots for POTUS is a violation of the 12th Amendment,

I don't see it in there. In the presidential election, we are actually voting for the electors selected by the candidate. The part you have highlighted talks about the electors voting for the candidates.

30 posted on 08/21/2020 5:22:19 PM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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