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...airwaves, Republican lawyer Benjamin Ginsburg's Blackberry pager began vibrating. "I'm glad it was on silent instead of beep," thought Ginsburg who was taking a sensitive deposition. The Beltway veteran, who helped George Bush prevail in the 2000 recounts, was quickly enlisted to keep Torricelli on the ballot-a supreme irony since Republicans had been demanding his resignation...
...Jersey Supreme Court rightly decided, election law does not prohibit the replacement of a name on the ballot at such a late date. The law is silent on the procedure for filling a vacancy later than 51 days before the election, which gives the court the right to decide the appropriate procedure. As a result, the court—which includes two Republicans—was right to interpret the election laws liberally in order to create a “full and fair ballot choice for the people of New Jersey.” The entire point...
Matthew S. Moon ’05, a candidate in Currier House who cast his ballot this morning, said, “Changing your vote at any time during the period is sketchy...
...forbids replacing any candidate fewer than 51 days before the election - by mid-week that count was down to 34. So everybody piled into the courthouse Wednesday to make their respective cases; Democrats arguing that they had a right to put a viable candidate on their side of the ballot, and Republicans insisting that "rules are rules" and that voters need to know those rules aren't bent for anyone...
...Wednesday evening, the court ruled 7-0 in favor of the Democrats, and clerks around New Jersey started putting Lautenberg's name on the November 5th ballot. GOP lawyers appealed to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter, who has the delightful task of reviewing all appeals out of New Jersey. No word yet on what SCOTUS will do with this...