Mar 14 2010
More Choices? Why? You’ve already got two Parties on the Ballot right now!
Your ReTHUGlican/DemoCRAP two-party duopoly at work:
Unaffiliated legislative candidate Mark Brody is suing the state over what he calls unfair and unconstitutional ballot access laws.
After collecting the 3,000 signatures it took to appear on the 2008 ballot, Mark Brody ran as an unaffiliated candidate for North Carolina House District 103.
He earned 30 percent of the vote.
Brody assumed his high numbers at the polls would secure him an automatic place on the ballot in 2010.
He was wrong. When he went to his County Board of Elections last month to file for office, he was turned away. The board said if he wanted to get back on the ballot he had to petition all over again. He has until June to turn in the signatures.
Brody refuses to petition again. He says doing so would lend legitimacy to what he calls an unjust and incomplete election law.
Good luck with that. The Democrats control the legislature, and they’d probably outlaw the Republicans if they could get away with it. And if the Republicans take over this year, how sympathetic will they be to Mr. Brody and those like him?
This is really one of those things where voters need to hold their elected representatives accountable. Ask your state house or state senate candidate if they will ease up on these restrictive laws. If they won’t, ask them why they have a problem with freedom and free elections?
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ReTHUGlican/DemoCRAP! I love that phrase. The Libertarians have been fighting for free and open elections for years. Their legal challenge to NC’s most-restrictive-in-the-nation ballot access laws will be heard by the NC Supreme Court. Read more at Examiner.com/raleigh.
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