Kerry Edwards sued as conspirators

[zorkpolitics]

Independent voters sue Democrats, alleging conspiracy against Nader
http://www.cuip.org/

Democrats, apparently do not want voters to have too many choices.  I guess they learned from FL in 2000 that many Democratic voters are easily confused.  So to help out those poor voters, Kerry and the DNC is mounting a multi-state effort to bump Nader off as many ballots as possible.  No concern about voters intent here!  Any technicality is good enough reason to throw out a voters signature.

[zorkpolitics]

If Nader could actually legally get on the ballots this wouldn't be an issue, however in most of these cases Nader is getting on the ballot ILLEGALLY, thats what the Democrats are challenging.

In any state their are various rules and regulations about the process of getting on the ballot.  One of those in many states with 3rd party candidates involves signatures and where the signatures come from.  While an Individual republican or Democrat can sign in order to get  a 3rd Part candidate on the ballot their can't be any correlation between the Republican or Democrat part as a whole as getting the signatures to get the 3rd Party candidate on the ballot.  That is what is going on in many of these states.  The republican Party as A WHOLE is cordniating efforts to get Naderas many signatures possible to get on the ballot, NOT Individual Republicans which is legal, but the party as a whole which is illegal in most cases.  So what the Democrats are challenging is the legality of many of these signatures since they were organized by the Republican Party.

Bottom line is a tad shady that the Dems are rying to block Nader from getting on the ballot, granted, however so is cordinating efforts to get a 3rd Party candidate on the ballot to help your own party.  Laws are laws, if Nader LEGALLY gets on the ballot, with his own supporters fine he can do that, and its all good & legal, but efforts from within the Republican Party to get him on the ballot isn't right nor is it legal in most cases, and the Dems have every right to challenge it because Nader is getting on the ballot in a legal manner.

The most common illegal, if you will, infraction is the Ballot Petition Laws is that the signer did not use their correct signature:  it must match their voter registration and many times people forget if they signed with their middle name, middle initial, or not.

Second most common illegal infraction is that the signer may have been registered with another party.  Again often the individual forgets if they registered as Independent, a Green, a Reform, or a major party.

So do you still support, in the words of the FL Supreme Court a "hyper technical" interpretation of the voting law, or would you support giving the voter (signer) the benefit of the doubt when he expresses a clear intent, and letting the will of the people prevail?