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Woah! He never signed his 'Declaration of Candidacy' paperwork..... wow...... someone made a big mistake...... The VA GOP has filed a lawsuit to get him disqualified from being on the ballot... Interesting to see how this will turn out....
Not to mention, what did his witnesses witness? Could they be in trouble for this?
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What's worse is the document has the signatures of two witnesses who witnessed his signature.
hmm. Interesting.
Agree - I can see how someone on McAuliffe's staff could mistakenly submit an unsigned form. It's a rookie mistake, but it's plausible. The witnesses, though - I expect someone was trying to rush things and just asked them to sign it first and that the person running the document around would get McAuliffe's signature but never did. If that is the scenario it's a shortcut they never should have taken because it is lying on a submission to government.
Would the Democrats be allowed to put someone in his place, or is it already too late for that?
According to the candidate bulletin, the deadline to file the Declaration of Candidacy was in March, so McAuliffe should be disqualified (IMO). I don't know why anyone should be allowed to file a Declaration of Candidacy this late. I'm not a political party operative but it would seem to me that other Democrats would have filed by the deadline, not just McAuliffe. Even if the Democrats decided they wanted to put McAuliffe forward it seems like the party would want a backup or two.
Would the Democrats be allowed to put someone in his place, or is it already too late for that?
Technically, his primary win should be invalidated. One of the Democrats’ counterpoints is that Republicans shouldn’t care or have a say about Democratic primary results but there is that tiny little issue of Virginia being an open primary state.
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According to the candidate bulletin, the deadline to file the Declaration of Candidacy was in March, so McAuliffe should be disqualified (IMO). I don't know why anyone should be allowed to file a Declaration of Candidacy this late. I'm not a political party operative but it would seem to me that other Democrats would have filed by the deadline, not just McAuliffe. Even if the Democrats decided they wanted to put McAuliffe forward it seems like the party would want a backup or two.
Technically, his primary win should be invalidated. One of the Democrats’ counterpoints is that Republicans shouldn’t care or have a say about Democratic primary results but there is that tiny little issue of Virginia being an open primary state.
A potential problem is Virginia has 45 days of early voting (ridiculous, but another topic for a different day)
That means early voting begins on September 17th ish. That's two to three weeks away. Are the ballots already printed? This is one example why there shouldn't be more than one week of early voting.....
This is kind of how President Obama got his start in Illinois politics. A state senator named Alice Palmer had decided to run for US House, and Obama ran for the state senate seat she had abandoned. But she realized she would lose in her house race (IIRC) and decided to reclaim her old Senate seat.
The law required that candidates collect 700 signatures from residents of a state leg. district to get on the ballot (intended to stifle upstart candidates, according to Obama). Because of the last minute nature of her campaign, Alice Palmer's signatures were riddled with errors--multiple sigs in the same handwriting, non-existent people, dead people, etc).
Obama challenged Alice Palmer's sigs, and got her candidacy invalidated. He went on to win the state senate seat, and started his meteoric political ascent.
Technically, his primary win should be invalidated. One of the Democrats’ counterpoints is that Republicans shouldn’t care or have a say about Democratic primary results but there is that tiny little issue of Virginia being an open primary state.
This is why I don't like the open primary idea. The parties should be fully able to decide who is going to represent them in a race.
We have 'top two' ('jungle') primaries in WA and often end up with 2 democrats in the general (or 2 Republicans in some Eastern WA races).
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