“The Green Party denounces any effort to harass, intimidate or shame private citizens who signed a ballot access petition for any party or candidate,” National Green Party communications manager Michael O'Neil said in a statement to Fox News. “Our candidates have faced that kind of political bigotry for decades but employing it against regular citizens on this scale marks a new, shameful low.”
The Democrats succeeded in getting some 500 petition signatories to recant their signatures after alleging the petition was backed by Republicans (the party reportedly helped finance the effort), although no law specifies a process for such removal. The withdrawals left the Green Party short of the signatures needed.
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"There was a great deal of pressure applied to [petition signers] to get them to withdraw their signatures. Multiple phone calls with strong language, and repeated letters," local Montana Green Party candidate Gary Marbut, who is running for state Senate but is not competing in the U.S. Senate race, told Fox News. (The U.S. Senate candidate for the party is Wendie Fredrickson.)
Dems get Green Party kicked off ballot after pressuring petition-signers; ‘voter suppression’ alleged | Fox News
Same ****, "different" party. The Republocrats have long vied for control over who can and cannot be on a ballot to protect their Oligarchy from the will of the People. I don't vote Green, but I wish them luck in their upcoming court battle to get back on the ballot.
Democrats and their double standards... They are what they accuse others of doing. Crooks!
Dems get Green Party kicked off ballot after pressuring petition-signers; ‘voter suppression’ alleged | Fox News
Same ****, "different" party. The Republocrats have long vied for control over who can and cannot be on a ballot to protect their Oligarchy from the will of the People. I don't vote Green, but I wish them luck in their upcoming court battle to get back on the ballot.
Fake News. Everyone knows only Republicans try to suppress votes they don’t like. This has to be a bunch of white nationalist pretending to be Democrats to frame them. Or is was Qannon spreading rumors. Democrats are always on the up and never try to influence elections. And even if they did do this it doesn’t matter because getting Trump out of office is all that matters and if cheating people out of more choices is what is needed then it’s justified because Orange Man Bad. I think I got all the excuses and spin in.
The party’s removal followed revelations that the Montana Republican Party had bankrolled the $100,000 signature-gathering effort that put the Greens on the ballot and violated finance laws by not reporting the spending.
The Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday in a 5-2 ruling upheld an Aug. 7 ruling from district Judge James Reynolds that granted the requests of more than 560 people to remove their names from ballot petitions after they learned the Montana Green Party did not support the effort.
The 2019 Legislature passed a law requiring timely reporting of spending on minor party ballot-qualification efforts.
Dems get Green Party kicked off ballot after pressuring petition-signers; ‘voter suppression’ alleged | Fox News
Same ****, "different" party. The Republocrats have long vied for control over who can and cannot be on a ballot to protect their Oligarchy from the will of the People. I don't vote Green, but I wish them luck in their upcoming court battle to get back on the ballot.
Yeah, not so much.Same ****, "different" party.
The Green Party didn't gather these signatures. The Republican Party paid $100,000 to get signatures for the Green Party.I had done petition work for the Green Party back in the day and that was absolutely infuriating. You do everything by the book and then you get contested and as long as they appeal it to an official in the right seat that is also of the same party or sympathy, you'll often lose.
And we were thwarted by Dems and by Repubs because the repubs thought if the Green party got on, it would open the door for the Libertarians. So they worked in unison to keep it just the two.
Yeah, not so much.
Democrats aren't passing laws all over the US that are designed to prevent Republicans from voting. They aren't making false claims about fraud in an attempt to undermine elections either. They engage in far less gerrymandering. When Democrats basically took over California's state government, they didn't gerrymander districts; instead, they set up a fair system.
Democrats also didn't spend $100,000 to get a candidate on the ballot with the intent of undermining votes for Trump. In case you missed it, that's what Republican operatives did. It wasn't the Green Party gathering those signatures. Hence the lawsuit.
Republicans want the turd party Green weenies to throw a 3rd election this century. GOPs helped people sign their petitions. Only one party that can win stands for ‘we the people’, and that’s the Democrats.Democrats and their double standards... They are what they accuse others of doing. Crooks!
The Third Parties push their ballot access early and actually go out to get sigs, and have a concerted effort to be on the ballots. And that's what the Green Party did in Montana, only to have the Democrats trying to undo their work through coercion of Montanans to revoke their signatures that were already gathered and turned in to throw them off the ballot.
There was no "coercion."Ain't no better throwing off third parties from the ballot through coercion.
TurdYeah, not so much.
Democrats aren't passing laws all over the US that are designed to prevent Republicans from voting. They aren't making false claims about fraud in an attempt to undermine elections either. They engage in far less gerrymandering. When Democrats basically took over California's state government, they didn't gerrymander districts; instead, they set up a fair system.
Democrats also didn't spend $100,000 to get a candidate on the ballot with the intent of undermining votes for Trump. In case you missed it, that's what Republican operatives did. It wasn't the Green Party gathering those signatures. Hence the lawsuit.
The Green Party didn't gather these signatures. The Republican Party paid $100,000 to get signatures for the Green Party.
Plus, signatures for all parties are challenged all the time -- and with good reason. For example, Kanye West's team faked 1,900+ signatures for the ballot in Illinois. They've been getting busted in state after state for faking petition signatures.
Ain't no better throwing off third parties from the ballot through coercion. Can't take the competition, got to try to use slimy methods to avoid the competition all together.
According to the article, Republicans were 'indirectly' hiring/funding canvassers to collect signatures for Green Party ballot access in a Kanye-like ploy to sap votes from the Democrats, and the Democrats responded by calling up the signatories, telling them of the Republicans role, and convincing them to withdraw their support.
There was no "coercion."
The signatures were collected under false pretenses, which is why those individuals withdrew their signatures.
Third-party proxy wars are not new in Montana. In 2012, supporters of Democrat Jon Tester spent $500,000 supporting the Libertarian Party candidate in hopes that he'd draw votes away from the Republican. It may have worked, as Tester won by 18,000 votes, while the Libertarian candidate received 31,000.
The Democrats, in their campaign to get Green signatures “taken back,” pointed out that this year, Republicans indirectly hired canvassers to collect signatures for Green Party ballot access.
“We are not naive about Republican Party operatives' motivations,” the Green Party’s O'Neil said. “They believe it undermines their counterpart within the two-party cartel. The Green Party rejects the idea of any candidate ‘taking away the vote’ of another candidate. Votes belong to the voters until the moment they are cast. Candidates must earn those votes.”
According to the article, Republicans were 'indirectly' hiring/funding canvassers to collect signatures for Green Party ballot access in a Kanye-like ploy to sap votes from the Democrats, and the Democrats responded by calling up the signatories, telling them of the Republicans role, and convincing them to withdraw their support.
What false pretense? Did the signature pages say "Democrat" and after people signed it, the Republicans peeled off the tape to reveal "Green"? Or were they told that it's signatures to get Green Party candidate on the ballot? If they knew it was for Green Party Ballot access and signed it, then it seems legitimate. They weren't duped into supporting the Green Party access by being told it was for some other party.
Apparently 560 people did feel duped, as they withdrew their signatures when the scheme was exposed.
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