Superior Court to rule on Green Party congressional nomination Thursday;
Terry Baum for Congress
8TH Congressional District www.terrybaum.com
URGENT NEWS ADVISORY
Thursday, July 15, 2004
Contact: Baum Campaign 415.424-5881 / Press office 916.996-9170
Attention: Assignment Desk
Superior Court to rule on Green Party
congressional nomination Thursday;
candidate suggests election illegal
SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge is expected to rule Thursday - more
than 4 months after the March Primary - whether Green Party Congressional
candidate Terry Baum actually won her party’s primary as she contends and
should be on the November ballot.
A news conference and major rally will start at 9 a.m. THURSDAY in the
front of the Courthouse (400 McAllister).
The hearing will be held at 9:30 a.m. in Dept. 302.
Ms. Baum argues in court filings that an obscure state law used by the San
Francisco Department of Elections to invalidate hundreds of ballots is not
applicable, and unconstitutional.
Further, she claims that the city, in its court filings, has admitted it
may have conducted last March’s Green Party primary illegally.
Ms. Baum was denied the nomination when the San Francisco Elections Office
refused to validate hundreds of write-in votes for her even though a
city-initiated handcount indicated she had won the primary - making her the
first third party candidate to win a write-in nomination since 1968.
City elections officials, a week after the Primary, informed Ms. Baum she
had won the Green Party nomination with 1,659 valid write-in votes. A week
later, the city invalidated hundreds of ballots, claiming voters, despite
hand-writing in Baum’s name, had failed to fill in an “arrow” on the ballot
correctly, technicality violating a state code.
Ms. Baum suggests that the city may be involved in voter fraud, and cites
several California and U.S. cases, including the infamous 2000 Presidential
race in Florida.
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