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Texas Yahoo Mocks Idaho Election System
The State of Idaho needs to rethink how people get on our presidential ballot.
Keith Russell Judd, a federal prison inmate, got himself listed on the ballot for Idaho's May 27 primary as a Democratic presidential candidate.
"It's a mockery of the system, and it's too bad that this kind of thing can happen," said Chuck Oxley, a state Democratic Party spokesman, after a Texas inmate was able to con his way onto the Idaho ballot for the presidential election.
Party leaders are especially annoyed because Ysursa, a Republican, barred a Democratic state senate candidate, Matt Yost, from the ballot after determining that Yost was registered to vote in a different district. "We have this really good candidate who can't get on the ballot, and this yahoo prisoner in Texas who coughs up a thousand bucks can," Oxley complained.
Judd, 49, is serving time at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution. He qualified for the ballot by submitting a notarized form and paying the required $1,000 fee, state Secretary of State Ben Ysursa said. As a result, Democratic voters will be able to choose between Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Judd, the Idaho State Journal reports. Fortunately, I don't believe Judd will win. Judd paid his fee with a U.S. Treasury check drawn on his prison account, listing as a campaign office telephone number the city desk news tip line at the Beaumont Enterprise newspaper in Texas, and giving an Internal Revenue Service line in Ohio for the number of his campaign coordinator telephone, Ysursa said.
"We did some checking," Ysursa said. "There was nothing legally to keep him off."
Nothing? Sounds like we have a flawed system.
Wire reports confirmed that a key reason Judd was able to make the ballot was a recent change in state election law that eliminated a requirement under which he would have had to get signatures from more than 3,000 Idaho citizens.
Officials have four years to correct the problem. I hope they get this serious loophole plugged.
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