Libertarian candidate sues to get Obama & McCain removed from the Texas ballot!

[thewayne]

This is a thing of beauty. Texas law "§192.031 requires that the “written certification” of the “party’s nominees” be delivered “before 5 p.m. of the 70th day before election day.” Because neither candidate had been nominated by the official filing deadline, the Barr campaign argues it was impossible for the candidates to file under state law."

I would SO love to see them not appear on the Texas ballot! I can understand the problem that they didn't hold their conventions in time to meet the deadline, but still, you can't tell me that each party doesn't have any election law specialists that didn't know this. They should have scheduled their conventions appropriately.

http://www.bobbarr2008.com/press/press-releases/133/bob-barr-files-suit-in-texas-to-remove-mccain-obama-from-ballot/

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/19/0116219

Comments

[deborak]

It's already been adjudicated. Obama and McCain will be on the ballot.

[silveradept]

According to an article that I read about it, all the potential candidates made preliminary filings to get on the ballot in Texas, which were then updated once the candidate was officially chosen and all the others formally were removed from consideration. At least, I think that's how it turned out. Which should be a legal thing to do - file all your paperwork as one of the "party's nominees", and then "suspend one's campaign" or other such once the hammer finally falls.