Federal Judge Refuses To Allow Nader On Ohio Ballot (signature fraud)

[Khephra]

Reported by: A.P.
Web produced by: Neil Relyea
Photographed by: 9News
10/12/04 10:59:25 PM

A federal judge refused Tuesday to place independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader on the Ohio ballot, citing fraud by signature collectors.

U.S. Judge Edmund Sargus ruled against Nader in deciding that the fraud outweighed the constitutional issues Nader raised.

In his opinion, Sargus agreed with Nader that a state law requiring collectors to be registered Ohio voters and state residents is a constitutional violation of free speech rights.

But he wrote, "Regardless of how the Court would resolve the question of whether a state law requiring circulators to be state residents is constitutional, the fact remains that the signatures would be excluded on the grounds of several forms of fraud on the part of the circulators."



http://www.wcpo.com/news/2004/local/10/12/nader.html

[AVID]

1. Was he already on the sent absentee ballots?

[soup]

5. Yes ... and No...

But any vote for Nader will not be counted?

incredibly long Google cache link to article

FUBAR 2004

[bluestateguy]

2. More Nader campaign money down the crapper!

Lawyers: We'll take that!($)Thank You!

That's more money that can't be used for campaign activities and ads. In the words of Nelson Muntz, "Ha! HA!"

[MercutioATC]

3. Woooohooo! We come through!

Ohio's going to be close. I'm glad Nader won't even be an option.

[truthisfreedom]

4. good. can't think of a nicer guy it could happen to. 8^)

hope he's losing sleep over it.