Nevada Democrats sue to block Green Party from 2024 ballot - The Nevada Independent
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The Nevada Democratic Party asked a Carson City court to invalidate the signatures gathered by the Green Party, which it argued do not meet the state's requirements.

The Nevada Democratic Party is seeking to invalidate the Green Party’s effort to land on the state’s November ballot, arguing it did not gather enough valid signatures to gain ballot access.

The Green Party has not been on a Nevada general election ballot since 2008, when its candidate received around 1,400 votes. Including a qualified minor party on the ballot — one potentially able to pull dissatisfied left-leaning voters away from the Democratic Party — could have major impacts on the presidential race in Nevada, where President Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in 2020 by only about 33,000 votes out of more than a million cast.

The Green Party gathered nearly 30,000 petition signatures to land on the general election ballot, well more than the required amount of 10,095 signatures, which must be split evenly across Nevada’s four congressional districts. The party announced Monday that “as of this moment, the Nevada Green Party is on the Ballot.” The party has not submitted a candidate yet for the November ballot, but the party’s former presidential candidate Jill Stein is running again this year. Stein called the lawsuit “outrageous” in a video posted to her campaign website.

Lawyers representing the Nevada Democratic Party filed public records requests to review the Green Party’s submitted signatures and petition, but the lawsuit said they had only received a handful of signatures and no copies of the petition.

“We have filed this challenge to preserve our rights to inspect the petitions consistent with Nevada state law,” Hilary Barrett, the executive director of the Nevada Democratic Party, said in a statement.

  • Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works
    3215·
    16 days ago

    Stein is a Russian asset so I for one fully support this move to block her. It’s not even sly. They tried this shit in 2016 and it helped Trump so they’re just running back that same plan.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
      1612·
      16 days ago

      They tried this shit in 2016 and it helped Trump so they’re just running back that same plan.

      Equally true about the DNC trying harder to disenfranchise the left than they ever do to beat the GOP.

      • Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works
        117·
        16 days ago

        Nice false equivalence.

        But sure. If the left in the US exited and showed up to vote it could have taken over the DNC like the tea party did the GOP. I’ve voted Bernie every time I could. Others didn’t. But none of that is relevant to a legitimate action of keeping Jill Stein from helping get Trump elected.

        • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
          65·
          16 days ago

          If the left in the US exited and showed up to vote it could have taken over the DNC like the tea party did the GOP

          And you’re accusing ME of a false equivalence?

          The GOP openly embraced that AstroTurf movement, seeing as the people who sponsored it were some of the same people who already sponsored the GOP in general.

          In contrast, the Left is, amongst other things, defined by NOT being beholden to billionaires, hectomillionaires and their corporations.

          DNC isn’t having that threat to their steady stream of legal bribes, so they fight the Left tooth and nail every election, including by breaking their own party rules while still enforcing said rules when it’s to their own advantage.

    • TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
      41·
      15 days ago

      I’ve seen this one before, when the Russians ran Nader to help Bush: /s

      Nader, had already been subject to an extraordinary — and extraordinarily underreported — campaign of litigious harassment at the hands of the Democratic Party. John Kerry told Nader he had 2,000 lawyers at his disposal and would do “everything within the law” to win. In Arizona, Nader opponents filed a 650-page challenge to his attempt to get on the ballot, forgetting social justice concerns long enough to complain that one of Nader’s petition-circulators was a felon. They demanded ten samples of Nader’s own signature, hired a forensic examiner to call others into question, and challenged residents of a homeless shelter. The Democratic state chairman, Jim Pederson, said outright, “Our first objective is to keep [Nader] off the ballot,” because “we think it distorts the entire election.” source