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July 02, 2004
Nader | Nader Abandons Arizona

The Nader campaign has abandoned efforts to get Nader on the Arizona presidential ballot. According to the Associated Press, even though the Campaign submitted over 22,000 signatures the campaign was about 550 short of the 14,694 required “valid” signatures:

Two Democratic voters had filed a lawsuit last week, backed by the Arizona Democratic Party, questioning the validity of Nader’s nominating petitions and other documents. The Democrats argued that more than 70 percent of the signatures were invalid.

As a judge prepared to hear arguments in the case, the campaign said a review by the secretary of state’s office found that the campaign was about 550 signatures short of the number needed to get on the ballot.

“We withdrew after elections officials came out with us being 550 signatures short,” said Nader campaign spokesman Kevin Zeese. “There’s no question that deep-pocketed Democrats don’t have much of a sense of fair play.”

He said the campaign does not have the resources to fight the aggressive legal challenge.

From California Yankee.



Posted by Dan Spencer at July 2, 2004 02:06 PM | TrackBack
Comments

You mean that the fact that the D’s (gasp!) Spent Money on challenging an invalid petition was Ba-ad?

Gee Golly Gosh! Hoodathunk it?

Posted by: Don at July 2, 2004 02:35 PM

It’s tough being a man of principles.

Posted by: bananas at July 2, 2004 08:50 PM

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