They admit Democrats circulated and signed the petitions. This wasn’t conservative activism, it was attempted sabotage to try to help Obama win. Even so, if enough petitions have valid signatures, they will still stand. I’m glad the Tea Party is checking them out.
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The president of the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania, Tom Stevens, said the petition drive was financed strictly by Libertarian Party members and the campaign of former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, the party’s candidate for president.
“It’s part of no plot, and no money is coming from Democrats to finance our petition drive,” Stevens said.
He said it may be true that the signers and circulators were Democrats. But they were hired exclusively by a contractor for the national Libertarian Party, and they must accurately represent the Libertarian Party and its philosophies, he said.
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http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/20120819_Pa__GOP_targets_2_parties__petitions.html
I don't care. I'm not interested in winning by keeping other political parties off the ballot. And it's a terrible waste of resources and manpower that could be spent campaigning to the voters about how bad liberal Democrats are. This just sounds like classic corrupt GOP establishment tactics like what happened in Virginia for Romney that helped keep Newt and Santorum off the ballot there. The cowardly GOP establishment wusses should win on the issues and not win by disenfranchising voters from making a choice from all the available options. There shouldn't be ridiculous hurdles in place to keep a reasonable number of choices off of the ballots. That's corruption, anti-freedom, anti-democracy and anti-constitution.