Reply #22: There's a difference between legal positioning and fact.

[FBaggins]

Don't assume that just because someone claims a precedent... that the precedent actually exists.

The WVSC case merely reinforced that you can't get into an election after the filing deadline.

Nothing says that the state's existing schedule of primaries and elections must remain in concrete. As I read it, the law requires the state to schedule an election with its own primaries and filing deadlines.

The <b>principle</b> of the law is clear. The people have the right to elect their own representatives if there is enough time to do so... the Gov appoints their representative if there isn't enough time for an election. <b>And the law states what period of time differentiates between "enough time" and "not enough time."</b>


The current party position assumes that those who wrote the laws were idiots. That they intended for the people to wait 2+ years to elect someone to sit for five weeks.