Can someone explain this to me. If a name appears on the ballot, how can that person have withdrawn? In NY primaries Cuomo quit, but his name was still on the ballot. Let’s say he won, how could the DEMs legally put McCall on the ballot in November? I would ask the same question in NJ as a legal challenge. If the Torch appears on the ballot, he hasn’t withdrawn from the election, he has only stopped campaigning. Legally I don’t see how McGreevycould claim that a legal election hadn’t taken place and that his appointment should serve until the next general election.
The best I can see the DEMs getting out of this is that the Torch can’t drag them down any further or that he actually wins and resigns again.