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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsColorado Supreme Court removes second Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, Lorena Garcia, from primary
Coilorado SunThe Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday removed another Democratic U.S. Senate candidate from the June primary ballot after reversing a lower courts order.
Lorena Garcia, a community organizer, should not be allowed to participate in the election, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled.
Garcia didnt collect enough signatures 1,500 from each of Colorados seven congressional districts to make the primary ballot.
She argued before Denver District Judge Christopher Baumann that the coronavirus crisis created an impossible burden for signature collection. He agreed and put her on the ballot after determining that since she collected half the necessary signatures she showed enough support to warrant being part of the primary.
But the Colorado Supreme Court has rejected Baumanns reasoning.
While we recognize that the circumstances that made signature collection more difficult this year are unprecedented, we do not have the authority to rewrite the Election Code in response to the COVID-19 virus, the court wrote in a decision handed down Monday in the ballot-access case of another Democratic U.S. Senate candidate. The Election Codes minimum signature mandate requires strict compliance.
Lorena Garcia, a community organizer, should not be allowed to participate in the election, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled.
Garcia didnt collect enough signatures 1,500 from each of Colorados seven congressional districts to make the primary ballot.
She argued before Denver District Judge Christopher Baumann that the coronavirus crisis created an impossible burden for signature collection. He agreed and put her on the ballot after determining that since she collected half the necessary signatures she showed enough support to warrant being part of the primary.
But the Colorado Supreme Court has rejected Baumanns reasoning.
While we recognize that the circumstances that made signature collection more difficult this year are unprecedented, we do not have the authority to rewrite the Election Code in response to the COVID-19 virus, the court wrote in a decision handed down Monday in the ballot-access case of another Democratic U.S. Senate candidate. The Election Codes minimum signature mandate requires strict compliance.
The once large field is now down to Hickenlooper and Romanoff.
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Colorado Supreme Court removes second Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, Lorena Garcia, from primary (Original Post)
brooklynite
May 2020
OP
I'd say the main argument was that other candidates were able to surmount the same barriers
brooklynite
May 2020
#2
Horseshit lawsuit. Hickenlooper and Romanoff were able to collect enough signatures.
Jose Garcia
May 2020
#3
Laelth
(32,017 posts)1. Seems like a fair ruling to me.
It was a tough call. It could have gone either way, and I would not have been too upset.
-Laelth
brooklynite
(93,851 posts)2. I'd say the main argument was that other candidates were able to surmount the same barriers
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)4. That's what it looks like to me.
Let's hope Romanoff gets some traction - he's who I voted for in the caucuses, just before Captain Trumps hit.
Jose Garcia
(2,552 posts)3. Horseshit lawsuit. Hickenlooper and Romanoff were able to collect enough signatures.
Why should the rules not apply to her just because her campaign can't get its s@#t together?