16 June 2002

Boy oh boy, I love the local news. Who needs News of the Weird when you have stuff like this?

Man sues to remove names from ballot

"A Taos man has filed a lawsuit requetiong the Secretary of State's office remove all names from the November ballot. Daniel Pearlman, who filed the lawsuit Thursday in US District Court in Santa Fe, wants the state to issue a blank ballot so voters can make choices 'without the government telling them who to vote for.'

According to the lawsuit, the Secretary of State has a 'constitutional obligation to expunge all printed candidate names protecting the right of Pearlman, and The People, to freely write in the names of any person to serve in any public office in all future elections.'

...Pearlman has tried unsuccessfully to get on the ballot as a write-in candidate for governor and president in previous elections."

The New Mexican

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