Paying to get screwed legal in Pennsylvania
August 18, 2009No, this isn’t a post about legalized prostitution. It’s about ballot access and the lack thereof.
Via Ballot Access News:
On August 18, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court again upheld the unique Pennsylvania practice of charging candidates for the costs of removing them from the ballot. The Court issued a one-sentence order in the 2006 Green Party case, affirming that the Court’s prior opinion stands, and that the Green Party’s candidate for U.S. Senate in 2006 and his attorney must pay approximately $80,000 to the people who challenged their petition.
If petition challenges work in Pennsylvania like they do here in Illinois, the extremely political. Sometimes, state workers are dispatched to make sure those nasty greens and libertarians are kept out of the process.
Tags: Green Party, Pennsylvaniam ballot access, petition challenge