Posted on 08/16/2024 10:25:27 AM PDT by Angelino97
A Democratic National Committee employee filed a complaint this week to block the Green Party’s Dr. Jill Stein from appearing on the Wisconsin state ballot, arguing that the party cannot legally nominate electors. The same employee also filed a complaint against the Cornel West campaign.
According to the Associated Press, the complaint against Stein was filed by David Strange, the Wisconsin deputy operations director for the Democratic National Committee. Strange claims that the Green Party lacks the authority to nominate presidential electors and therefore cannot legally put forward a slate necessary for Stein to appear on the ballot. He argues in his complaint that state law requires those who nominate electors to be state officers, none of which the Green Party currently has in Wisconsin.
Under Wisconsin Statutes, specifically section 8.18, individuals authorized to nominate presidential electors include “candidates nominated by each political party for the state senate and assembly, state officers, and holdover state senators.”Candidates for the senate and assembly nominated by each political party at the primary, the state officers and the holdover state senators of each political party”
Additionally, a WisPolitics article on Thursday indicates that Strange also filed a complaint against the independent presidential ticket of Dr. Cornel West and Dr. Melina Abdullah last week, claiming that both candidates failed to properly notarize their declarations of candidacy.
In a copy of his challenge, Strange argues that West and Abdullah’s declarations of candidacy “contain defective notary jurats, and therefore must be excluded from the ballot.” He notes that the declarations were defective for different reasons, with West’s failing to include a required boxed notice along with the form, and Abdullah’s failing to include the signature of the person who administered her oath. Instead, her name is listed where the signature of a public notary would be, with the notary’s signature being on a separate page that Strange argues “is not tied in any way to the signature it purports to witness.”
The Wisconsin Elections Commission will meet later this month to determine whether to place four presidential candidates, including Stein and West on the state ballot.
Because democracy
How democratic of them.
Remember the rule. Once a socialist government gets elected they rule for a century. Wolverines.
“This is what democracy looks like!”
They know that pro-Palestinians would vote 3rd party.
“Democracy dies in darkness”...when lawfare strikes.
Nothing says ‘democracy’ by trying to keep opponents off of the ballot.
“Our Democracy”™. Not yours. It’s only ours.
Muh Democracy....
Seems a real $h!+ show is shaping up in Chicago next week. Popcorn time.
But why did West and his running mate allow such trivial clerical errors to happen on their notarized document?
Maybe because minor clerical errors are often overlooked. At least for leftists.
Who says it’s not a dog eat dog world.
We’ll more easily elect Trump from Prison.
Let’s have our constitutional crisis.
"Under Wisconsin Statutes, specifically section 8.18, individuals authorized to nominate presidential electors include “candidates nominated by each political party for the state senate and assembly, state officers, and holdover state senators.”Candidates for the senate and assembly nominated by each political party at the primary, the state officers and the holdover state senators of each political party”"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Wisconsin's law limiting candidate names on an electoral ballot wrongly limits constitutional rules for determining the next president imo.
More specifically, note that the 12th Amendment (electoral vote rules) not only doesn't mention anything about constitutionally undefined political parties, it indicates a write-in ballot for electoral votes imo.
Excerpted from the 12th Amendment:
"[...] they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President [all emphases 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;--The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;--The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President."
Also note that the 12th Amendment goes on to indicate that when the first, and possibly last stage, which is joint session of Congress, fails to determine who the next president is that the next stage shows that the 3 top electoral vote winners from the first stage are then voted on by the House, a third candidate indicating a possible third party imo.
Note that the drafters of the Constitution had allowed the top 5 electoral vote winners to proceed to House.
Excerpted from Article II, Section 1, Clause 3:
"[...] and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List [emphasis added] the said House shall in like Manner cause the President. [...]"
Again, Wisconsin's law limiting candidate names on an electoral ballot unconstitutionally limits constitutional rules for number of electoral vote winners to be voted on by House imo.
Since worthless incumbent career federal lawmakers and renegade states have repeatedly proven that they are enemies of the people imo, it is now up to Democratic and Republican Trump supporters to effectively "impeach and remove" ALL (exceptions?) state and federal lawmakers and executives in November.
In other words, it's now up to Democratic and Republican Trump supporters to support hopeful Trump 47 with a new, Constitution-respecting Congress, new state lawmakers too, not only so that he will not be a lame duck president from the first day of his second term, but will support him to quickly finish draining the swamp.
Finally, let's not allow the anti-Trump media try to fade our memories of what we witnessed on July 13.
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