Ralph in trouble for twisting arms and being a crook!

McGraw appeals to high court to keep Nader off state ballot

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Kaufman said the state’s interest did not outweigh the harm that would be done by keeping Nader off the ballot.

In its petition to overturn the ruling, Attorney General Darrell V. McGraw Jr.’s office said the harm would fall on voters if Nader were allowed to remain on the ballot.

“It is clear that a significant likelihood of harm will result to the State and the public’s interest in the fair and honest conduct of elections if the plaintiff is directed to place defendant’s name on the ballot where defendant utterly failed to comply with statutory requirements of nominating petitions,” said the petition, filed last Friday.

During an Aug. 30 hearing before Kaufman, the Attorney General’s office presented several witnesses who said that petition workers failed to display credentials that would identify them as seeking signatures for Nader; failed to inform voters of the petition’s purpose; displayed the petition in a way that failed to show it was for Nader; and refused, delayed or gave inconsistent or misleading answers to questions from those who signed the petition. More....

http://www.wvgazette.com/section/News/2004090834

Was the Nader campaign using homeless people to collect signatures in West Virginia, too? There's been a bit of controversy about that is some cities, with the petition workers saying that they had not been paid the one dollar per signature that they'd been promised. With the Nader campaign strapped for cash and some of the petition workers collecting thousands of "signatures", even one dollar per signature would put the Nader campaign in the red.

Court won’t boot Nader from ballot


By The Associated Press


Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader will appear on West Virginia’s general election ballot, after the state Supreme Court refused Thursday to block a circuit judge’s ruling that upheld his petition drive.

The justices rejected a petition by the Attorney General’s office seeking to knock Nader off the ballot. Justice Warren McGraw, Attorney General Darrell McGraw’s brother, did not participate in the decision.

Kanawha Circuit Judge Tod Kaufman ruled Sept. 2 that questions about how Nader’s petitions were gathered should not knock him off the ballot.

The Attorney General’s office had argued that Nader’s ballot petitions should be invalidated because workers hired to obtain signatures from registered voters violated state law or misled people into signing the petitions. MORE.........

http://www.wvgazette.com/section/News/200409101

The Nazi string pullers in high places have won another battle!