Election Tricks in San Francisco

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Election Tricks pt. 1
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S.F. Superior Court Judge Refuses To Put Green Party Congressional Candidate on November Ballot

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco Superior Court judge late Wednesday ruled - after more than 3 months of delays - that Green Party congressional candidate Terry Baum cannot have her name placed on the November ballot in the 8th District, a seat currently held by Nancy Pelosi (D).

The Green Party has called an important news conference for Thursday, 1:30p.m. at the Green Party Campaign Office (1028 A Howard St.)

Baum is expected to comment on the ruling and an anticipated appeal. Details of Judge Ronald E. Quidachay’s decision were not available as of late Wednesday, but he noted in a previous hearing that the case was “like the hanging chad in Florida” where voter intent was clear but the votes were not counted.

At issue are several hundreds write-in votes for Baum that were found, and counted by the San Francisco Department of Elections. The DOE qualified Baum as the winner of the Green nomination, but then later refused to validate the disputed votes because people wrote in Baum’s name but did not fill in a small arrow - in effect, the “hanging chad.”

Baum has argued that the state code cited by DOE is not applicable, and unconstitutional.

Baum, a lesbian playwright in San Francisco and a staunch anti-war and pro-civil rights activist, has built an army of campaign backers who decry Pelosi’s vote for the Patriot Act and support for sending even more troops to Iraq.