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12-23-2019, 07:12 PM #1
Trump-only ballot in GOP primary
Minnesota's first presidential primary in decades faces legal challenge over Trump-only ballot
Kelly Mena, CNN
Updated 5:46 PM ET, Mon December 23, 2019
Washington, DC (CNN)Minnesota's first presidential primary in nearly 30 years is facing a legal challenge over the Republican party ballot, which only lists President Donald Trump.
Jim Martin, a small-business operator and political independent, filed a lawsuit over the March 3 primary objecting to a new state law allowing party chairs to determine who appears on primary ballots.
"By stripping us of our ability to govern ourselves and equipping the central committees with the power to decide who can and (more importantly) who cannot govern, we Minnesotans are driven downwards into the disparaging pits of authoritarianism," said Martin in a public statement on his election website. "I find this to be shocking."
The 2020 presidential primary will be the state's first since 1992, after a law passed three years ago did away with presidential straw polls taken at precinct caucuses.
The primary ballots are set to include two of the "major" political parties in Minnesota -- Republicans and the Democratic-affiliated Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.
The ballot submitted by the Minnesota GOP ahead of the state's March 3 Super Tuesday presidential primary excludes all other Republican candidates but Trump.
"Minnesota's laws allow political party chairs to select the candidate(s) on the primary ballot. The state GOP chose Mr. Trump exclusively," Martin's lawyer, Erick Kaardal, told CNN. "Our complaint alleges that the statute violates the state constitution's ban on the state legislature granting exclusive privileges to individuals."
Martin's lawsuit, filed in early December, was first reported by the Star Tribune. A hearing has been scheduled before Minnesota Supreme Court on January 9.
According to the Star Tribune, the state's Republican Party chairwoman, Jennifer Carnahan, defended the move, arguing that her job as party leader is to help re-elect the President next year. Party officials have since said they will allow write-in candidates.
The lawsuit could have repercussions on the state's early voting process, which is set to start on January 17.
State officials warned the Supreme Court in papers filed this week that unless the ballot question is settled "within the first few days of January," they may not have enough time to print and distribute ballots on time.
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12-23-2019, 09:57 PM #2
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MN will have 15 presidential candidates on the Dem primary ballot. Yeah, that’s ‘unprecedented.’
The list was formally submitted to state election officials Tuesday by Ken Martin, chairman of the state Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. Martin said the length of ...
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12-24-2019, 01:37 AM #3
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16 Democrats, 3 Republicans qualify for presidential primary in Tennessee
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and California billionaire ... Tennessee has two ways to qualify for a presidential primary ballot: Either ... Nearly a quarter of primary delegates are up for grabs in the March 3 Super ...
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