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Bob Barr Loses Ballot Status in Connecticut Due to Bureaucratic Failures
ATLANTA, GA – A U.S. Federal District Judge yesterday allowed the state of Connecticut to keep Libertarian Presidential Nominee Bob Barr off the November ballot despite Barr meeting the legislative requirements for ballot access.
The Libertarian Party of Connecticut properly submitted over 12,000 signatures to meet the 7,500-signature requirement of the state.
The state miscounted the number of petitions submitted by the Libertarian Party of Connecticut and improperly struck hundreds, if not thousands of voter signatures denying Bob Barr access to the ballot. The administrative mistakes of the state bureaucracy were quickly uncovered.
Judge Janet Hall, based her decision on the inability of the state to quickly reprogram electronic voting machines and reprint machine-readable ballots before the election.
"We are outraged by the decision of Judge Hall. To allow a candidate for the highest national office to be unlawfully excluded from an election because it would inconvenience state workers or interfere with bureaucratic procedures goes beyond the pale," stated Russ Verney, campaign manager for Bob Barr.
Verney continued, "It takes a few days to print good, old paper ballots which served us well for over 100 years. Throw the machines in the river and allow democracy and justice to take precedent over technology. If the state of Connecticut maintains a level of incompetence so great that they cannot print ballots before the election, I encourage them to look to private industry and call Kinkos."
So because it would be an inconvenience to some workers Bob Barr gets kicked off of a ballot he did all the necessary work to get on. Amazing.
Source: Democracy Subverted for the Benefit of Technology — Bob Barr 2008
I have a hard time believing this because TM hasn't screamed "cheaters !!! "
It'll be forgotten, just as this was forgotten:
11.11.04: Green, Libertarian Candidates Demand Ohio Recount
If you're not a Democrat or a Republican, nobody cares what you have to say.
