Barr Campaign Loses Connecticut Ballot Access Case
You’ve got to be kidding me!!! From Ballot Access News:
On October 23, U.S. District Court Judge Janet Hall said that Connecticut need not reprint its ballots to include Bob Barr. The key factor in the decision was the state’s testimony that it would be almost impossible to reprint the ballots. There will be no appeal of the denial of injunctive relief. However, the Libertarian Party will keep the case alive, with the goal of getting the signature-checking process declared unconstitutional. The “Help America Vote Act” of 2002 mandated that each state have its own centralized list of registered voters. Therefore, the New England tradition that town clerks must check ballot access petitions seems not only cumbersome and faulty, but no longer necessary.
That’s the best argument they could come up with? That they have to re-print ballots!? What does it matter as long as the democratic process is upheld? Shame that democracy should be shoved aside because some towns seem to have screwed up on the verification process.
Susan Bysiewicz, this happened on your watch. I hope the Libertarians run a candidate in the next Secretary of State election in 2010. If so, I’ll be voting for that person.
Unfortunately, it seems that Barr will also not be a counted write-in candidate. So now comes the time where I decide what to do. I could still write him in, I suppose, since it’s not like Obama was ever going to lose this state, anyway. Pollster clocks him in at a 15-point lead currently.
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hmmm,
There certainly seemed to be enough precedence and barely enough time to print them all again. In my experience Liberal leaning states are more difficult to vote in than Conservative leaning ones – but this pushes it out there way further.
What was the reason given for not counting any write in ballots for Barr?
“In my experience Liberal leaning states are more difficult to vote in than Conservative leaning ones ”
Which states?
I have voted in one conservative (bible belt) state and two rather liberal states and found it quite easy to register and vote in all three. What barriers have you encountered to voting in more liberal states?
Texas the easiest by far
New Hampshire fairly easy (when it was still conservative)
Vermont and Maryland much harder.
Grewillis, I don’t think Barr ever tried to go for write-in status. He was completely focused on getting on the ballot as a party candidate.
And Connecticut makes it more difficult for write-ins. That’s why Lieberman ran as the “Connecticut for Lieberman” candidate.