The self-proclaimed defenders of democracy are once again interfering with U.S. elections, attempting to drive another competitor off a critical swing state presidential election ballot.
Democrats have asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to block Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and her running mate, Butch Ware, from the Badger State’s November ballot. The Democratic National Committee argues Wisconsin’s high court should take original action in deciding the case, foregoing the usual first filing in lower courts. The leftist-controlled state high court on Thursday obliged the DNC, with a ruling coming as soon as Monday, legal experts tell The Federalist.
Doug Strange, the DNC’s deputy Operations director in Wisconsin, is named as the petitioner in the legal action against the Wisconsin Elections Commission, the agency’s administrator and commissioners and the Wisconsin Green Party. It’s weird that Strange and the DNC would bring such a democracy-poisoning petition against a like-minded leftist political party, particularly when the Democratic Party’s top leaders are in Chicago this week rallying around a “freedom” message and asking “Americans to defend democracy one more time.”
‘Last-Ditch Effort’
The Wisconsin Elections Commission, which has had its share of election integrity troubles, on a technicality denied a previous complaint from Democrats asserting the Green Party ticket couldn’t appear on the November ballot because there are no Green Party members represented in state offices.
They cite statute laying out requirements for presidential electors, that they must be “[c]andidates for the senate and assembly nominated by each political party at the primary”;
