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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsomfg!..."Texas Supreme Court rules 3 Green Party candidates should be added back to November ballot"
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"Thus setting the stage for demands to inspect all mailed ballots to challenge any that did not have Green on it as possible choice.
Only question is whether inspections will occur only for ballots with Dem votes, due to who is doing the complaining."
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)LisaL
(44,974 posts)At least they didn't issue this ruling after the deadline, it'd be very hard to make the deadline then.
Thekaspervote
(32,793 posts)LisaL
(44,974 posts)So at least this won't be as big a mess as could have been in Wisconsin if their Supreme Court issued a similar ruling.
And by the way, how are they going to make the deadline in PA, if they are still in court debating about the green party?
samsingh
(17,601 posts)Eid Ma Clack Shaw
(490 posts)That they have gotten a significant number of votes in a cii of couple of pivotal elections so far and seek to do the same again shows their true motivation for running, and also shines the spotlight on just how moronic some on the fringe-left are.
Renew Deal
(81,871 posts)WI, PA, TX.
onetexan
(13,058 posts)Trying not to get my blood pressure raised again but it seems everyday more election tampering by the GOP.
UTUSN
(70,740 posts)Gothmog
(145,558 posts)I will never forgive nader Rove funded Nader in 2000 and 2004 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-zuesse/ralph-nader-was-indispens_b_4235065.html
Furthermore, Karl Rove and the Republican Party knew this, and so they nurtured and crucially assisted Naders campaigns, both in 2000 and in 2004. On 27 October 2000, the APs Laura Meckler headlined GOP Group To Air Pro-Nader TV Ads. She opened: Hoping to boost Ralph Nader in states where he is threatening to hurt Al Gore, a Republican group is launching TV ads featuring Nader attacking the vice president [Mr. Gore]. ... Al Gore is suffering from election year delusion if he thinks his record on the environment is anything to be proud of, Nader says [in the commercial]. An announcer interjects: Whats Al Gores real record? Nader says: Eight years of principles betrayed and promises broken. Mecklers report continued: A spokeswoman for the Green Party nominee said that his campaign had no control over what other organizations do with Naders speeches. Bushs people - the group sponsoring this particular ad happened to be the Republican Leadership Council - knew exactly what they were doing, even though the liberal suckers who voted so carelessly for Ralph Nader obviously did not. Anyone who drives a car the way those liberal fools voted, faces charges of criminal negligence, at the very least. But this time, the entire nation crashed as a result; not merely a single car.....
On July 9th, the San Francisco Chronicle headlined GOP Doners Funding Nader: Bush Supporters Give Independents Bid a Financial Lift, and reported that the Nader campaign has received a recent windfall of contributions from deep-pocketed Republicans with a history of big contributions to the party, according to an analysis of federal records. Perhaps these contributors were Ambassador Egans other friends. Mr. Egans wife was now listed among the Nader contributors. Another listed was Nijad Fares, a Houston businessman, who donated $200,000 to the Bush inaugural committee and who donated $2,000 each to the Nader effort and the Bush campaign this year. Furthermore, Ari Berman reported 7 October 2004 at the Nation, under Swift Boat Veterans for Nader, that some major right-wing funders of a Republican smear campaign against Senator John Kerrys Vietnam service contributed also $13,500 to the Nader campaign, and that the Republican Party of Michigan gathered ninety percent of Naders signatures in their state (90%!) to place Nader on the ballot so Bush could win that swing states 17 electoral votes. Clearly, the word had gone out to Bushs big contributors: Help Ralphie boy! In fact, on 15 September 2005, John DiStaso of the Manchester Union-Leader, reported that, A year ago, as the Presidential general election campaign raged in battleground state New Hampshire, consumer advocate Ralph Nader found his way onto the ballot, with the help of veteran Republican strategist David Carney and the Carney-owned Norway Hill Associates consulting firm.
It was obvious, based upon the 2000 election results, that a dollar contributed to Nader in the 2004 contest would probably be a more effective way to achieve a Bush win against Kerry in the U.S. Presidential election than were perhaps even ten dollars contributed to Bush. This was a way of peeling crucial votes off from Bushs real opponent - votes that otherwise would have gone to the Democrat. Thats why the smartest Republican money in the 2004 Presidential election was actually going to Nader, even more so than to Bush himself: these indirect Bush contributions provided by far the biggest bang for the right-wing buck.
DFW
(54,437 posts)It shows the widespread panic in the Republican Party. They know that they can't abandon Trump now, but they also know how unpopular he is. ANY tactic, no matter HOW sleazy, is fine with them, as long as it stands a chance of skewing the vote their way. From enthusiastically condemning people of questionable guilt to death to manipulating the ballots to help struggling Republicans, much of the Texas judiciary is fully committed to inserting political partiality in their rulings, and don't care who knows it.