Nader off Florida Ballot

Rory writes "This could be it for Ralph Nader. A Florida judge has issued a preliminary injunction, ruling the Reform Party is no longer a party, thereby knocking its candidate, Ralph Nader, off the Florida ballot. The devil is in the details, and Florida has too many electoral votes for this not to have serious impact on the national election, if this preliminary ruling holds up on appeal."

WTF?

[pi_rules]

This story is a week old. Last I heard Jeb declared the ruling invalid and Nader's on the ballot.

Currently before FL supreme court.

[boy_asunder]

This is very old news. The case has had about five iterations since then.

From what I have read, the current status is that the Florida Supreme Court has halted the release of abstentee ballots pending a decision in the case that might come Saturday. So far, both a trial judge and an appellate court have found that the Reform party is not a legitimate state party, and so Nader can't get on the ballot. The Secretary of State has appealled both decisions.

And here's a Miami Herald story [miami.com], that's, you know, actually from today 'n shit.

The Green Party candidate, on the other hand...

[RobertB-DC]

Interesting that Nader was trying to get on the Florida ballot as the Reform Party's candidate. Hopefully, this will remind folks that Ralph Nader is not the Green Party candidate for President in 2004!

That honor belongs to David Cobb [votecobb.org], who is working to build the Green Party from the ground up. Contrast with Nader, who wanted to use the party's (still limited) ballot access to prove a point.

And according to Cobb's site, the Green Party has a ballot line in Florida [votecobb.org]. Unlike Nader, though, Cobb cares who wins the election:

http://www.votecobb.org/news/camden [votecobb.org]
"Cobb said he is asking people to vote for him in states like New Jersey, where polls show Kerry is ahead of Bush by 10 percentage points. In states where the race is close, he said he will understand that some liberal voters would support Kerry instead of him."

Nader's time as a candidate is over. So long, and thanks for all the fi^W safety [wikipedia.org]!

Re:Old News

[russeljns]

But now he's off for good. [nwsource.com]

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Re:WTF?

[Quarters]

No, it's new as of today. The Governor can't over-rule the state Supreme Court. He tried, with some vague threat of hurricane Ivan being the reason he was thumbing his nose at the high court. Today justice won out (thank God) and Gov. Bush got the legal smack-down he should've gotten in 2000.

Re:Old News

[CodeMonkey4Hire]

Actually he's not off for good. As the article you linked to says, they have simply postoned the mailing of ballots until this has been resolved in the Florida Supreme Court. They will decide whether he is on or off.