Kobach Surrenders: Ballots Will Be Printed With No Dem Senate Nominee

[DonViejo]

By DYLAN SCOTT Published OCTOBER 2, 2014, 11:05 AM EDT

After a Kansas district court ruled on Wednesday that the Kansas Democratic Party did not have to name a new Senate nominee, it seems that Secretary of State Kris Kobach effectively threw in the towel in his bid to force Democrats to put somebody on the ballot in the November.

Kobach's office sent an order to local election officials Wednesday after the ruling instructing them to prepare and print ballots with no Democratic nominee.

"There will be no Democratic candidate on the ballot," the order, obtained by TPM, said. "There will be no position on the ballot for the Democratic Party for US Senate. Remember to include a write-in blank."

"There is no change to the candidate list that was certified to you on September 19 in an email," the order said. That referred to a previous order, issued after the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that Kobach could not force withdrawn Democratic nominee Chad Taylor to stay on the ballot. So at the time, the certified candidate list had no Democratic candidate.

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[Gothmog]

1. Kobach is a partisan hack and a bad lawyer

[RoBear]

2. And

a cry-baby. Friend who has testified against a bill he was backing (he's president of Kansas Equality) said the man couldn't deal with comments against his stand.

That sounds convoluted and I'd make a student re-write it, but I'm sure you get the drift...