Alison Lundergan Grimes: Rand Paul can’t run for president and Senate

[Ronin Truth]

According to what legitimate authority?

 

[Paul4Prez]

None of the leading presidential candidates are really on the ballot in Kentucky, or any state. What's on the ballot is a slate of Electors pledged to that candidate. Rand would just need a dummy slate nominally pledged to someone else to get on the Kentucky presidential ballot. Then when he wins, the dummy candidate drops out and endorses Rand Paul.

 

[tsai3904]

None of the leading presidential candidates are really on the ballot in Kentucky, or any state. What's on the ballot is a slate of Electors pledged to that candidate. Rand would just need a dummy slate nominally pledged to someone else to get on the Kentucky presidential ballot. Then when he wins, the dummy candidate drops out and endorses Rand Paul.

Kentucky election law:

118.136 "Dummy" candidates prohibited.

No person shall file a notification and declaration to become a candidate in a primary election as a pretended, fictitious or "dummy" candidate for the purpose of influencing or controlling the selection of challengers or inspectors or officers of election, nor shall any person solicit, persuade, urge, influence or induce another person to file a notification and declaration with the intention that such person become a pretended, fictitious or "dummy" candidate for the purpose of influencing or controlling the selection of challengers or inspectors or officers of election.

http://www.lrc.ky.gov/Statutes/statute.aspx?id=27581

 

[Brett85]

He should simply not appear on the presidential primary ballot in Kentucky, except perhaps as a write-in candidate, and then, in the event that he wins the presidential nomination, drop out of the Senate race so that he can be in the Kentucky general presidential election.

The problem is that he can't drop out of the Senate race. Kentucky law states that in order to get your name removed from the ballot in a Senate race, you either have to be dead or be declared insane by a judge.

 

[RonPaulFanInGA]