The name of Todd Young will appear on the Indian Republican primary vote despite the fact that the evidence presented to the Indiana Election Commission today clearly established that he was at least two signatures short of what Indiana law required for him to make the primary ballot. The vote was straight down party lines.
The two Democratic members of the Commission, Tony Long and Suzannah Overholt, voted to sustain the challenge made to Todd Young's ballot petitions because he failed to attain the signatures of at least 500 registered voters in the First District. The two Republican members of the Indiana Election Commission, Bryce Bennett and Zachary Klutz, decided to error on the side of not disenfranchising Young's supporters by denying him a place on the ballot because he came up two or three signatures short. A tie vote means Todd Young stays on the ballot, just as I predicted.
Indiana election laws are a complete joke. They're a moving target that reflect the subjective wishes of the partisan hacks who control the system as opposed to objective standards of law. The Indiana Election Commission members, all attorneys, are a complete joke and embarrassment to the legal profession of this state. It is pure torture to ask anyone to watch how this corrupt body operates. And why carry on the pretense that the Secretary of State has anything at all to do with elections in this state. She clearly has no role at all in elections other than to greet candidates as they file petitions and smile for the cameras..
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Given the evidence that the straight-up count of certified sigs & that Rep. Young didn't bring up the should-have-been certified sigs at the COUNTY level, I think the Dems & Rep. Stutzman should take it to court. Jim Bopp layed out a heck of a record for any judicial review.
Additionally -- on a political level -- keeping this in the news can only hurt Rep. Young. First, it keeps alive in voters' minds that he didn't have his shit together to obtain the requisite number of sigs. Second, it HAS to slow down contributions due to the lack of clarity regarding the ballot.
Let's examine Todd's campaign contributors to date to see exactly which millionaires would have been "dis enfranchised" from what they had bought and paid for? I imagine we will see the usual suspects and connect some of them with other nefarious predations. I wonder if the Democrats have enough sense to ask Mr. Bopp to continue this discussion since he has already done all of the legal research needed and thus might prove to be an inexpensive choice to see Indiana laws upheld in a proper forum....one without long tails and massive jumps.
Let's examine Todd's campaign contributors to date to see exactly which millionaires would have been "dis enfranchised" from what they had bought and paid for? I imagine we will see the usual suspects and connect some of them with other nefarious predations. I wonder if the Democrats have enough sense to ask Mr. Bopp to continue this discussion since he has already done all of the legal research needed and thus might prove to be an inexpensive choice to see Indiana laws upheld in a proper forum....one without long tails and massive jumps.
Lying and liars are not surviving as the caption indicates. In a Kangaroo forum one doesn't need lawyers. If this goes to a court of law things will be different (assuming an honest judge) but it may not go to a court other than that of public opinion where the stench of the lies and the lying will hang, and rot, and smell worse. The lack of honor exposed might not help the Democrats any in this cycle but it sure does give them the opportunity to find men of honor in the future.
Young is a useless party hack who shouldn't be anywhere near an elected office
Gary - can Stutzman and the Democrats appeal this decision to a court?
The decision can be appealed. Whether it is appealed remains to be seen.
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