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Apparently the rules don't apply to John McCain, the candidate of the Republican establishment. We'll see, won't we?

This afternoon, Thomas Cook, a voter in Bloomington, Indiana, filed a complaint with the Indiana Election Commission challenging John McCain’s place on the ballot for the May 6 primary. If this complaint is successful, McCain WILL NOT be on the ballot in Indiana on May 6.

According to Indiana law, a presidential candidate can only get on the ballot if he or she collects 500 signatures in each Congressional District. Even though the incumbent Governor (who is up for reelection) is McCain’s Indiana state chair, McCain fell 9 signatures short in the 4th Congressional district — the most Republican district in one of the most Republican-leaning states in the country.

As astonishing as the McCain campaign’s incompetence may be, the audacity of its response is even worse. In order to avoid a major embarrassment, the McCain campaign did what Republicans typically do when confronted with their incompetence: they called in their cronies.

Despite the fact that the McCain campaign clearly failed to qualify for the ballot, Republican Attorney General Steve Carter and Republican Secretary of State Todd Rokita (who recently endorsed McCain) rubberstamped it anyway, trying to sneak McCain onto the ballot. Clearly, the Republican Culture of Corruption is alive and well within the McCain campaign.

Thomas Cook's blog

http://www.blueindiana.net/showDiary.do?diaryId=2020
 

Mike

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At least they ain't digging up signatures from dead voters. :lol:
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"11.15.07
Circuit Court Judge Jim Pounds has ordered a special Democratic primary election in the race for Justice Court Judge Southern District. The race between incumbent Ellis W. Darby and challenger Louise Linzy had been decided by less than 10 votes. The ruling comes after a complaint was filed by Linzy, alleging that the Democratic Executive Committee failed to count legal absentee ballots before making the primary election results official, that she was denied an opportunity to examine ballots due to the confiscation, and that election officials failed to properly count the affidavit and machine ballots, which she claimed could have affected the outcome of the primary election. “Obviously votes were illegally cast and counted in this election,” Judge Pounds said. Indeed, after seizing ballot boxes from the local Democratic Executive Committee, officials with the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations found:

1-a large number of absentee ballots were sent to two particular questionable addresses;
2-at least three dead people had been allowed to vote;
3-Tunica Nursing Home residents were shown to be registered in six different precincts, although they all lived at the same address;
4-at least three convicted felons and one incarcerated individual were allowed to cast votes; and
5-two votes were also cast by persons not registered as U.S. citizens."
 
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