[Nyclocal] Socialist Wins US Court Injuntion in Ohio; Opens Ballot for More Presidential Candidates]

[William Wharton]

--- natsec at socialistparty-usa.org wrote:


> BRIAN MOORE FOR PRESIDENT, SOCIALIST PARTY USA
> 
> MOORE / ALEXANDER '08
> 
> 
> NEWS ADVISORY
> TIME SENSITIVE
> Effective: Immediately
> Monday, June 2, 2008
> For more information, please contact:
> Brian Moore (352) 686-9936 -- cell (352) 585-2907
> www.votebrianmoore.com
> 
> or, Mark R. Brown, Esq.:  (614) 236-6590 (o);
> cellular: (614) 584-3478
> 
> 
> 
> SOCIALIST WINS INJUNCTION IN U.S. DISTRICT COURT IN
> OHIO TO OPEN PETITION
> PROCESS FOR ALL PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES SEEKING
> BALLOT ACCESS
> 
> Crucial Swing State Now Opened Up to More Third
> Party and Independent
> Presidential Candidates
> 
> 
> Spring Hill, Florida, Monday, June 2, 2008:   
> Socialist Party USA
> presidential nominee, Brian Moore, announced this
> evening that a motion
> for an injunction against the state of Ohio was
> granted today by the
> United States District Court , Southern District of
> Ohio, by Judge Gregory
> L. Frost, thereby enabling out-of-state petitioners,
> plus in-state
> unregistered residents, to be petition circulators
> for presidential
> candidates.
> 
> 
> 
> Socialist Party USA candidate Moore said the
> injunction not only "enables
> him to seek qualification on the state's ballot as
> an Independent
> candidate, by having access to more circulators,
> plus his own out-of-state
> party members and volunteers," but the ruling also
> states that it applies
> to "any other persons who circulate part-petitions
> on behalf of ANY
> candidate for President, in the State of Ohio."
> 
> 
> 
> Judge Frost'S U.S. District Court office informed
> Moore's pro-bono
> attorney, Mark R. Brown, a law professor at Capital
> University in
> Columbus, Ohio, of the unanimous affirmative
> decision at 4 PM EST today.
> 
> 
> 
> Attorney Brown indicated that this ruling was
> "supported by the U.S.
> Constitution," thus making the Ohio requirements
> unconstitutional.  The
> ruling posted by the Clerk of Courts of the United
> States District Court
> for the Southern District of Ohio  blocks the state
> from enforcing its
> present laws prohibiting certain petitioning.
> 
> 
> 
> Moore added, The ruling also "puts into question,
> the precariousness of a
> swing state like Ohio," should more candidate
> choices be offered to the
> residents of Ohio.
> 
> 
> 
> The Socialist candidate accused the two major
> parties, both on a state
> level and nationally, of "obstructing alternate
> political parties and
> independent candidates from participating in the
> democratic process," and
> that "it took an unelected and non-partisan
> judiciary to bring fairness
> and equality to our political process."  Moore added
> that this is just
> "one small example" of the undemocratic procedures
> faced by alternative
> parties "throughout the country."   The candidate
> said It is a crime that
> there is "not a national uniform law for fairer
> ballot access and equal
> participation in public debates where the
> beneficiaries are the citizens
> of the country."
> 
> 
> 
> Brian Moore said this U.S.  District Court ruling,
> for the Eastern
> Division of Ohio, "helps the Libertarian Party, the
> Constitution Party,
> the Green Party, all other alternative parties and
> even Independent
> candidates like Ralph Nader, to have a fairer
> opportunity in getting on
> the presidential ballot in Ohio."    Moore said
> "this decision today, more
> importantly, helps the voter have more choices of
> candidates and increases
> voter turnout as well."  "Democracy has been given a
> fairer shake today,"
> said Moore, "but no thanks to our capitalist system
> that acts
> undemocratically when its power and profits are
> threatened."
> 
> 
> 
> Moore's Vice-President, Stewart Alexander, resides
> in California, and is
> campaigning in his home state to assist the
> Socialist Party ticket in
> winning the nomination of its sister-socialist Peace
> and Freedom Party of
> California.   Prohibitive petitioning requirements
> in California is
> "another graphic example" where it is impossible for
> third parties to gain
> ballot access, stated the presidential candidate. 
> New parties have to
> collect 100,000 signatures, and independent
> candidates are required to
> collect over 158,000 registered voter signatures on
> petitions in
> California.
> 
> 
> 
> Moore added that even piggybacking on a sister
> party, as in California,
> "involves complex delegate searches, additional
> primary elections,
> candidate money and geographic proximity----which
> favor in-state
> candidates and puts an unfair burden on even
> sister-parties and
> candidates."
> 
> 
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