Comments on: New Hampshire Secretary of State Won’t Permit Presidential Stand-Ins http://www.ballot-access.org/2007/09/14/new-hampshire-secretary-of-state-wont-permit-presidential-stand-ins/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:13:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=208 By: Rich http://www.ballot-access.org/2007/09/14/new-hampshire-secretary-of-state-wont-permit-presidential-stand-ins/comment-page-1/#comment-124738 Rich Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:57:49 +0000 http://www.ballot-access.org/2007/09/14/new-hampshire-secretary-of-state-wont-permit-presidential-stand-ins/#comment-124738 It's not an attack to keep a party off the ballot. Unless you take the decision to mean we have to wait to petition until after the national convention. Which the LP needs to have earlier in the year anyway (hopefully one day the LNC will listen). Substitution of candidates really isn't part of NH election law or tradition except in very specific circumstances. So I get why Bill Gardner said what he said. Given the past precedent, it's possible we would be able to do that after a lawsuit. In any event, we're focused on getting as many votes as possible next year so we don't have to worry about this anymore. It’s not an attack to keep a party off the ballot. Unless you take the decision to mean we have to wait to petition until after the national convention. Which the LP needs to have earlier in the year anyway (hopefully one day the LNC will listen).

Substitution of candidates really isn’t part of NH election law or tradition except in very specific circumstances. So I get why Bill Gardner said what he said. Given the past precedent, it’s possible we would be able to do that after a lawsuit.

In any event, we’re focused on getting as many votes as possible next year so we don’t have to worry about this anymore.

]]> By: Glenn Brown http://www.ballot-access.org/2007/09/14/new-hampshire-secretary-of-state-wont-permit-presidential-stand-ins/comment-page-1/#comment-119684 Glenn Brown Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:33:28 +0000 http://www.ballot-access.org/2007/09/14/new-hampshire-secretary-of-state-wont-permit-presidential-stand-ins/#comment-119684 Another attack on third parties. Trying to keep them off the ballot. Another attack on third parties. Trying to keep them off the ballot.

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