Ron Paul is REALLY on the ballot in NY now!
I know it was reported earlier that Ron Paul was on the ballot in NY due to his national stature as a candidate, but if not for the hard work of about a dozen supporters over the last two weeks to compile a delegate list, we would have lost it!
We had to submit a list of 87 delegates and alternates coming from all Congressional Districts. Under Republican rules, we had to file a complete slate to be eligible. (Dems operate differently and e.g., Edwards filed with an incomplete slate of delegates.)
Due to the wacky party enrollment "lockbox" system in NY (see my Jan 12 post at
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=65532 for an explanation) the
State Board of Elections, who certifies our delegate list, does not have a current list of all NY Republicans, only those who switched to R* before Oct 12, 2006 or who were newly-registering voters enrolling R* before November 1, 2007 (when the counties reported their info to the state). Therefore, our volunteers had to go around in person to County Boards of Elections all over the state to get
certified copies of proof of Republican enrollment for almost half our slate. We only had five days from when we were informed of the "problems" to complete this state-wide scavenger hunt. This is now done and certified by the state!
FYI, I just spoke with the Board (Allison Carr) a few minutes ago. The delegate slate is fine and RP is on the ballot for New York. -- posted by Warren Redlich on Fri, 11 Jan 2008
Ron Paul is "officially" on the NYS Republican Presidential primary ballot; he "drew" the first position on the ballot some time ago... I would like to recognize especially Bruce Martin for all the time and effort he expended in this task. Other key contributors included Jim Ostrowski (Buffalo) and Warren Redlich (Warren will be running for Congress in the 21st CD this year). -- posted by Carl Svensson Sat Jan 12, 2008
Some of our folks who worked on this are lawyers, and yes, they are considering suing the state BoE for this completely unnecessary cost and hassle.
To Victory!
