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TheCowsCameHome

(40,254 posts) Sun Feb 19, 2012, 05:29 PM Feb 2012

Why does Scott Brown need signatures to get on the ballot? [View all]

There have been campaigners hanging out at the local Stop & Shop gathering signatures to get Scott Brown on the fall ballot. Isn't being an incumbent sufficient?

Anyway, I brushed them off and told them I thought his alliance with Roy Blunt was reprehensible and that he could kiss female voters goodbye.

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Why does Scott Brown need signatures to get on the ballot? [View all] TheCowsCameHome Feb 2012 OP

As the republican nominee for the Senate race, he shouldn't need signatures to be on the ballot. hughee99 Feb 2012 #1

Yes he does--he needs ten thousand of them. MADem Feb 2012 #3

I was under the impression he already submitted them a few weeks ago. hughee99 Feb 2012 #4

Maybe some of the signatures were invalidated? MADem Feb 2012 #5

It could be, hughee99 Feb 2012 #6

Yup, even Kennedy needed them back in his last.. MarkCharles Feb 2012 #10

I signed for him and was pleased to do it. nt MADem Feb 2012 #11

Nope. If you want on the ballot, you have to prove that people want you there. MADem Feb 2012 #2

I signed one for Elizabeth Warren yesterday MannyGoldstein Feb 2012 #7

I'd sign one for her, TheCowsCameHome Feb 2012 #9

And that is the way it should be for every election. RC Feb 2012 #8