[lbo-talk] silence on Cobb

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jun 30 14:55:59 PDT 2004


Michael Pugliese wrote:


>Democrats in Arizona are challenging signatures Nader submitted to
>get on that state's ballot. Word from the field is that there are
>probably enough suspect signatures to keep Nader off the ballot.
>In addition to suspect signatures, entire reams of signatures can be
>invalidated if the person collecting them is a felon. Turns out that
>out of the 122 paid people who gathered the Nader signatures, at
>least 19 are confirmed felons. One of them was convicted for forgery.

We think ex-felons should be able to vote, no? So why should they be forbidden to collect signatures?

Doug



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