Comments on: Brian Moore, Socialist Party Presidential Candidate, Sues Ohio Over Petitioning Restriction

By: ralph a. applegate

ralph a. applegate — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:21:44 +0000

Can I have the Ohio telephone numbers for the Ohio Socialist Party , then I can tell you why ?

By: ralph a. applegate

ralph a. applegate — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:59:15 +0000

Winger is behind times! On June 2, 2008, Judge Frost ruled, Case No.02-08-cv-00224, granting Moore’s Motion For Preliminary Injunction, but a look at the docket makes a sham of this order because there is no trial scheduled until Oct. 13, 2009 , months after newly elected officials have already taken federal office in January , 2009! I am waiting for Judge Sargus to decide a very ” elementary question ” in my federal case , Case No. 02-08-cv-092, filed Jan. 31, 2008?

By: Bob Richard

Bob Richard — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:05:13 +0000

The issue of Pirincin v Bd. of Elections of Cuyahoga County should be re-adjudicated from scratch. Most first year law students could win this one.

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:13:36 +0000

The last time the Socialist Party placed its presidential candidate on the Ohio ballot was 1932.

By: David Gaines

David Gaines — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:30:57 +0000

I meant specifically the Socialist Party, not one of the communist parties. When was the last time the SP presidential candidate was on the ballot in Ohio? If I were involved in a bar bet on this I would guess Norman Thomas.

By: Stine

Stine — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:04:28 +0000

MB,

Ohio Revised Code 3501.22 states:

… Not more than one-half of the total number of judges shall be members of the same political party. The term of such precinct officers shall be for one year. The board may, at any time, designate any number of election officers, not more than one-half of whom shall be members of the same political party, to perform their duties at any precinct in any election. The board may appoint additional officials, equally divided between the two major political parties, when necessary to expedite voting.

There is some leeway here. Two Rs, 1 D, and 1 unaffiliated voter would technically meet the first clause (one party would have no more than 1/2 the seats), but no one has ever reads it that way. In conjunction with the final clause, it is obvious that they truly mean to keep only Democrats and Republicans as poll workers.

I know this is true because I have been denied an application to be a poll worker because I refused to vote a partisan ballot (which registers you as a member of the party) or sign a statement that I support the party I was registering as.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:43:05 +0000

The last time the presidential candidate of a party that supports socialism was on the Ohio November ballot was 1996, when the Workers World got Monica Moorehead on in Ohio.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:55:55 +0000

I forgot to say, when the Pirincin lawsuit was filed, in 1972, the Socialist Labor Party was a ballot-qualified party in Ohio.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:55:14 +0000

In 1973 a 3-judge US District in Ohio upheld Ohio’s law that members of election boards can only be Democrats and Republicans. Pirincin v Bd. of Elections of Cuyahoga County, 368 F Supp 64 (northern district of Ohio). The US Supreme Court summarily affirmed it. Pirincin was with the Socialist Labor Party.

By: Atlee Yarrow

Atlee Yarrow — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:37:52 +0000

Many states have the same or like issue of bias written into law. It is a direct aim of social democrats to change this fact we all face towards having a real democracy in every sense of the meaning without any restrictions i.e. direct democracy.