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Minnesota DFL asks state Supreme Court to order Trump, Pence removed from ballot
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Sep 09, 2016 10:09am |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Pat Pheifer |
| Media | Newspaper - Star Tribune, The (Minneapolis - St. Paul) |
| News Date | Friday, September 9, 2016 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In a bold escalation of its effort to have Donald Trump and Mike Pence removed from the ballot in Minnesota, the DFL Party has taken its argument to the state Supreme Court.
Ken Martin, the party’s chair, late Thursday filed a petition with the court asking it to order the Minnesota secretary of state to strip the Republicans’ names off the state’s Nov. 8 election ballot.
There is urgency in resolving the issue, because early voting will begin in Minnesota Sept. 23.
The petition names Secretary of State Steve Simon as the defendant. It says Simon erred when he accepted a “certificate of nomination” filed about Aug. 25 by the state Republican Party after its Executive Committee met to select and approve alternate presidential electors. According to state law, electors and alternate electors must be nominated at an official state convention.
The petition said the state GOP erred at its state convention on May 20-21 in Duluth, where delegates “at large” and from each of Minnesota’s congressional districts nominated 10 presidential electors but failed to nominate 10 alternate electors.
The petition quoted the law (the italicized type is the party’s) as saying, “Presidential electors and alternates for the major political parties of this state shall be nominated by delegate conventions called and held under the supervision of the respective state central committees of the parties of this state.” |
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