Posted on 08/09/2004 3:41:20 PM PDT by demlosers
Associated Press
HARRISBURG — Ballot petitions circulated in Philadelphia for independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader contained a surprising number of fictitious signatures, said a lawyer who planned to challenge the petitions today.
Gregory M. Harvey, a Philadelphia attorney who helped oversee a review of the petitions ordered by Democratic leaders of the state House of Representatives, said usually no more than 10 to 15 percent of petition signatures are false. In the case of Nader’s petitions, he said there were an “enormous number,” including one sheet of 100 names on which 92 of the supposed signers could not be verified.
Harvey, who specializes in election law, said Nader’s petitions were the worst he’d seen in 15 years.
The Nader camp turned in about 50,000 signatures — nearly double the 25,697 state law requires. Democratic leaders in the state House of Representatives have had dozens of volunteers scrutinizing the petitions for the past week and planned to file their challenge in Commonwealth Court today.
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As a resident of Pittsburgh PA, may I state that PA Demopuke politics makes me SICK.
The phony party can't stand an honest liberal on the ballot. And these are the folks who say they want every vote to count!
Remember "All votes must count" except those for anyone else...
So much for the Democrats wanting every vote to be counted.
Ralph Nader's votes are supposed to go into the Kerry column.
Since when is Nader honest?
Democrats trying their level best to live up to their name, heh.
His program is a liberal wish list. But he has no chance of winning with that platform and he knows it. Which is exactly why the Democrats are running as faux Republicans.
That doesn't mean he is honest.
He has been lying about product safety for years.
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