Court Throws Nader Off Pennsylvania Ballot

[WilliamPitt]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041013/D85MOEN81.html

Court Throws Nader Off Pennsylvania Ballot
By Peter Jackson
The Associated Press

Wednesday 13 October 2004

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A state court knocked Ralph Nader off
Pennsylvania's presidential ballot Wednesday, citing legal problems with
his nomination papers that left him thousands of signatures short of the
number he needed.

Calling the petitions "rife with forgeries," Commonwealth Court President
Judge James Garner Colins said that fewer than 19,000 of the more than
51,000 signatures that Nader's supporters submitted were valid. Nader
needed at least 25,697 to be listed on the ballot as an independent
candidate.

"I am compelled to emphasize that this signature-gathering process was
the most deceitful and fraudulent exercise ever perpetrated upon this
court," Colins said in a 15-page ruling that climaxed a two-week review
in multiple courtrooms across the state.

"The conduct of the candidates, through their representatives (not their
attorneys), shocks the conscience of the court," he said. "In reviewing
signatures, it became apparent that, in addition to signing names such as
'Mickey Mouse,"Fred Flintstone,"John Kerry,' and the ubiquitous 'Ralph
Nader,' there were thousands of names that were created at random and
then randomly assigned either existent or nonexistent addresses by the
circulators."

The signature review was prompted by a court challenge filed by a group
of voters sympathetic to Democratic candidate Sen. John Kerry.

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[bluestateguy]

1. Nader's campaign has made lawyers very rich

Which is fine by me because that's money not being spent on the campaign.

[davidinalameda]

2. the Republicans have made Nader's lawyers very rich

can't forget who's bankrolling him

[LuminousX]

3. Does anyone have a list of battleground states where Nader is on

the ballot?

[WilliamPitt]

4. .

[NuttyFluffers]

5. now they are disenfranchising Mickey Mouse?!?

when will this madness stop!!!

(maybe Goofy was right by staying away from the polls this year. no one takes their opinions seriously...)