AZ Nader ballot update

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Tuesday June 22, 2004 · 2:09 PM PDT

2004/06/22 · 14:09

Democrats in Arizona are challenging signatures Nader submitted to get on that state's ballot. Word from the field is that there are probably enough suspect signatures to keep Nader off the ballot.

In addition to suspect signatures, entire reams of signatures can be invalidated if the person collecting them is a felon. Turns out that out of the 122 paid people who gathered the Nader signatures, at least 19 are confirmed felons. One of them was convicted for forgery.

Considering that these same felonious petitioners were also soliciting signatures for an anti-immigrant initiative and an effort to invalidate Arizona's clean election law, invalidating those petitioners and their signatures may actually serve triple duty, helping defeat Nader's cynical presidential effort AND two nasty Republican-backed ballot efforts.

Also, checking back with people in the know, it turns out that the partisan breakdown has shifted since the early days of the petition verification process. The numbers are now 65 percent Republican, 18 percent Democrat, the rest Independent.

AZ Nader ballot update

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