Nader effort to gain Mass. ballot access is in doubt

[Nambe]

The Boston Globe

The effort to place Ralph Nader's name on the Massachusetts presidential ballot this fall is "in serious trouble," the state's top election official said yesterday, a sign that the third-party candidate's troubles have extended even to the generally liberal Bay State.

Secretary of State William F. Galvin said yesterday that "it is in doubt" that the Nader campaign will get the required 10,000 certified voter signatures necessary to get the presidential candidate's name to appear alongside that of President Bush and US Senator John F. Kerry on the Nov. 2 ballot. ..

.. "We are getting calls and other communications that the city and town officials are receiving them late in the mail, after the close of business on Tuesday," he said. "They cannot count them." Galvin said that, because the Nader campaign is facing a potential problem, he has asked the local election officials to speed up the certification process. ..


Very Good Voter’s Guide

[jcgadfly]

1. My question

Is he trying to get on the ballot nationwide or just in states that Gore took in 2000?

[JuniorPlankton]

2. I live in Mass and I can't see Nader making

any difference here.
It's Florida and others like it that bother me.

[WindRavenX]

4. right you are

The reason I am, and a majority of DUers it seems, am absolutely LIVID about Nader this year is that he is AGAIN trying to hurt the Democratic party and John Kerry by trying to get on state ballots where the state is a battleground or swing state; he is not trying in "safe" states like MA, TX, CA- he's trying to HURT Kerry.
Well fuck you Nader.

[Downtown Hound]

3. Awww, poor wittle Walfie