{news} Fw: [usgp-dx] Green Party Sues South Carolina

[Tim McKee]

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From: "Brent McMillan"
To: "national comm affairs"
Subject: [usgp-dx] Green Party Sues South Carolina
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:32:52 -0400


Ballot Access News
Green Party Sues South Carolina
http://www.ballot-access.org/2008/08/08/green-party-sues-south-carolina/
August 8, 2008

On August 7, the South Carolina Green Party filed a lawsuit against
the State Election Commission. The Commission refuses to print
Eugene Platt on the November ballot as the Green Party candidate
for a particular State House seat. This is because, after the Green
Party nominated Platt via convention, Platt then also tried to win
the Democratic primary for the same office. He barely lost the
Democratic primary. Under a somewhat ambiguous South Carolina
election law, as interpreted by the state, Platt is now
disqualified from being the Green Party nominee because he tried
and failed to get the Democratic nomination. The case is South
Carolina Green Party v S.C. Election Commission, federal court.
This is an ACLU-sponsored lawsuit. South Carolina permits fusion,
so if Platt had won the Democratic primary, he would be listed on
the November ballot as both a Green and a Democrat.

Platt is a local office-holder and one of the strongest Green Party
nominees ever nominated in South Carolina. He had also won the
Working Families nomination, so if he wins the lawsuit, he will be
listed in November as a Green and perhaps also as the WFP nominee.

South Carolina does not have registration by party.

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