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On September 5th at ten O’clock in the morning a court proceeding will be held to see if Bob Barr’s name is eligible to appear on the ballot along with John McCain and Barack Obama in Pennsylvania.  Perhaps this will settle the matter and place Barr’s name on the ballot. I don’t blame the GOP for doing what they are doing.  They’re just trying to win and if a court agrees with their cause then what can you say to that?  This is politics and all is fair.  That being said I think it’s a real shame that we live in a country where the media strongly condemns dissent while at the same sending our boys into Iraq for ‘democracy’, while at the same time borrowing money from China so that we can financially support dictators who are favorable to America’s corporate economic interests.

Here’s a cut from the web:

The Republican Party challenge to Bob Barr’s Pennsylvania ballot position has been moved from September 4 to September 5 (Friday). It will be at 10 a.m. in Courtroom One, Widener Bldg., 1339 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. Experienced election law attorney Sam Stretton will be defending Barr. The objector does not dispute the validity of the statewide Libertarian petition. Instead, he says it was improper to use a stand-in presidential candidate in the period June and July, because by then the Libertarian Party knew who its real presidential candidate would be. But, under that theory, the party would have been stuck with two separate petitions, one listing Rochelle Etzel for president, and another one listing Bob Barr for president. Neither one would have had enough signatures, and there is no procedure for combining two different petitions with different names on them.

Stand-ins are well-recognized in Pennsylvania law. All petitions carry a substitution committee, which has the authority to appoint the new nominee after the stand-in withdraws.

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