Bradley in DC
09-11-2008, 09:25 AM
This comment from Richard Winger of Ballot Access News (pretty much universally regarded as the expert on these things):
richardwinger // Sep 11, 2008 at 11:08 am
Ironically, the Turner federal court decision (saying the US Constitution requires that valid votes be counted), which said that congress could not cut off funds to count votes for the marijuana initiative, is a useful precedent for getting valid write-ins counted. So Barr, by his amendment in the 1990’s, inadvertently helped election law!
richardwinger // Sep 11, 2008 at 11:08 am
Ironically, the Turner federal court decision (saying the US Constitution requires that valid votes be counted), which said that congress could not cut off funds to count votes for the marijuana initiative, is a useful precedent for getting valid write-ins counted. So Barr, by his amendment in the 1990’s, inadvertently helped election law!