Republican Campaigns For Political Office
In April of 1992, there was an article on the op-ed page of the New York Times (not a campaign endorsement, in this case) written by Larry Rockefeller, who wanted to run in the Republican campaign primary for U.
S.
Senator and had circulated nominating petitions.
He complained bitterly in the article that when he filed his petitions with the board of elections they used every petty defect in form to invalidate the campaign petition.
If they found one bad signature, instead of not counting it, they threw out the whole petition and all the good names with it.
As a result of this hanky-panky, Rockefeller did not get on the ballot or get the chance to run a political campaign.
Larry Rockefeller is a scion of one of the best-known Republican political campaign families in America and a man with sufficient resources to challenge any shenanigans in court, and they still did a job on him and his nominating petitions.
The saddest part is that it was all legal.
Think about that.
If they can do it to him, the same thing can happen to you.
While there are as many variations as there are states, getting on the ballot to run a Republican campaign for office is ordinarily done by nominating petitions.
A person seeking to run for an office goes to the elections office and obtains the petition forms for that office.
He fills out the petition form as candidate and signs it.
In some states, the candidate's signature must be notarized.
Underneath the Republican campaign candidate's part of the form there are lines for people, who must be registered voters, to sign their names petitioning that the candidate's name be put on the ballot.
The candidate obtains the signatures of the required number of voters on his petitions and files them with the elections office.
The board checks the petition to see if the names are valid, and if the petitions contain the required number of signatures.
If so, they certify the petition, and the Republican candidate's name is put on the ballot to run in the upcoming political campaign.
This is how it is done, in theory.
In practice, though, it can often be another matter entirely.
S.
Senator and had circulated nominating petitions.
He complained bitterly in the article that when he filed his petitions with the board of elections they used every petty defect in form to invalidate the campaign petition.
If they found one bad signature, instead of not counting it, they threw out the whole petition and all the good names with it.
As a result of this hanky-panky, Rockefeller did not get on the ballot or get the chance to run a political campaign.
Larry Rockefeller is a scion of one of the best-known Republican political campaign families in America and a man with sufficient resources to challenge any shenanigans in court, and they still did a job on him and his nominating petitions.
The saddest part is that it was all legal.
Think about that.
If they can do it to him, the same thing can happen to you.
While there are as many variations as there are states, getting on the ballot to run a Republican campaign for office is ordinarily done by nominating petitions.
A person seeking to run for an office goes to the elections office and obtains the petition forms for that office.
He fills out the petition form as candidate and signs it.
In some states, the candidate's signature must be notarized.
Underneath the Republican campaign candidate's part of the form there are lines for people, who must be registered voters, to sign their names petitioning that the candidate's name be put on the ballot.
The candidate obtains the signatures of the required number of voters on his petitions and files them with the elections office.
The board checks the petition to see if the names are valid, and if the petitions contain the required number of signatures.
If so, they certify the petition, and the Republican candidate's name is put on the ballot to run in the upcoming political campaign.
This is how it is done, in theory.
In practice, though, it can often be another matter entirely.
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