Nader goes to Supreme Court -- I ain't jokin folks

[newsguyatl]

For Immediate Release

For Further Information
Kevin B. Zeese
202-265-4000

NADER TO APPEAL OHIO SUPREME COURT RULING
Democratic campaign of harrassment, intimidation and abusive litigation
should not be allowed to stand.

Washington, DC: The Nader/Camejo campaign submitted nearly 15,000
signatures in Ohio to meet a 5000 signature requirement. Until September
28, Nader/Camejo was on the ballot with more than 6464 valid signatures.
The Democrats hired Kirkland and Ellis to subpoena and harangue our
circulators and challenge the validity of the signatures in an
administrative review. This review caused the total valid signatures to
fall under the 5000 required, thus forcing the campaign to challenge the
8009 discounted signatures that were not properly examined by Ohio’s
counties, in addition to signatures wrongly discounted.

In a split decision, the Ohio Supreme Court has denied Nader/Camejo a
place on the Ohio ballot claiming, remarkably, that a lawsuit filed
within six days (two of which were a weekend) after being removed from
the ballot by the Secretary of State, should have been filed during the
time in which Nader was presumptively on the ballot or months earlier to
challenge the constitutional infirmities in Ohio law. The Ohio Supreme
Court concluded it “was too late” to force the Secretary to review its
erroneous procedure and change the ballot, in large part because
absentee ballots had already gone out without Nader/Camejo on it and it
“would endanger Ohio’s election preparations.” The result is that the
Ohio Supreme Court allowed the Secretary of State to avoid processing
its voter registration backlog in the counties and did not force it to
reexamine more than 8009 signatures improperly discounted because the 88
counties of Ohio were not operating off the only up-to-date database, in
the capital, when it reviewed the Nader petitions. As the dissent, which
also found the Ohio law unconstitutional notes, “to assume it is too
late to correct the errors of the Secretary of State is to sell the
electoral process short.” “The law and process relied upon by the county
boards and the Secretary of State to remove Nader from the ballot are
dubious.”

Dubious and unconstitutional are understatements of the Kafkaesque
process the Nader/Camejo campaign has been put through in Ohio after
turning in nearly TRIPLE the required signatures. Perfectly legitimate
circulators and voters have been disenfranchised because of backlogged
databases and other shenanigans. Our state coordinator had all her
signatures ignored because her signature when she registered to vote at
age 18 did not match her signature now as a 50-year old! The only
“endangerment to Ohio’s election preparations” is the truth: This is a
nonsensical process where if you are on the ballot and then erroneously
removed you are prejudiced for not having sued while you were on the
ballot (where presumably the relief requested would have been to be put
on the ballot again)! The people of Ohio have been done a great
disservice. The Nader/Camejo campaign will appeal to the United States
Supreme Court.


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Paid for by Nader for President 2004

[newsguyatl]

1. wha??

no one cares about this?

[Snivi Yllom]

2. the guy is tenacious

I have to give him props for that.

[fujiyama]

7. LOL

Too bad he wasn't this enthusiastic about getting Bush out of office.

[onenote]

3. here's a scenario

the court sits on the case until after the election. If Bush loses, the court rules (5-4, of course) in Nader's favor, voids the election and orders a do-over.

onenote

[blondeatlast]

4. Proof positive the man doesn't love his country, only himself.

May he and his sycophant minions rot in the nation they created if Commander Bunnypants is elected for the first time.

I almost never say this word, but when I do, my family runs. I'm typing it now:

FUCK. HEAD. Enjoy watching everything positive you've ever done be destroyed by the misadministration you enabled.

Did I mention that Nader's a FUCKHEAD?

[blondeatlast]

5. Is this type of thing supposed to instill confidence, trust, in him and

and ATTRACT us?

What the hell is his game?

Can anybody explain what the hell is going on?

[arewenotdemo]

10. Not at all hard to understand

Nadir views the Democratic nominees (Gore in 2000, Kerry in 2004) as usurping his political base, and will consequently do anything within his power to undermine the Party. He fervently hopes to get Bush re-selected.

This should be evident to everyone by now and no surprise.

[Sparkle]

6. What an egotistical BASTARD!

Can't he get it thru his thick skull that he doesn't get enough votes to win the presidency?

[Bluebear]

8. He's rather pathetic these days, isn't he? nt

[fujiyama]

9. I wouldn't have believed

the Supreme Court would take this case, but then again I never thought they'd take Bush v. Gore either.

Yeah, Rehnquist, Scalia, et al. will ensure Nader is on the ballot.