Tarr is one of the citizen observers who watched as a Los Angeles county worker remade a "snagged" Democrat ballot onto a fresh, clean No Party Preference ballot, effectively wiping out their presidential vote.
There are very few independent parties or candidates who make it onto enough ballots to achieve the potential of 270 electoral college votes.
A goodly number of respected conservative pundits (respected in conservative circles, in other words) are already denouncing a Newt candidacy and issuing dire warnings that it will kill the party's chances "down-ballot" to hold onto the House, or retake the Senate.
The most contentious case involved North Dakota: disputes regarding application of the nickname Fighting Sioux spilled into federal court and onto ballots.
And about an hour into the sorting, an election worker dropped a box of ballots, which spilled onto the floor and had to be retrieved.
But critics of Mr. Cuomo's plan say it could open any party's nominating process up to deep-pocketed interlopers who could pay petitioners to gather signatures and basically buy their way onto ballots, without holding true to the party principles.
Two bills aimed at making it more difficult for the public to get propositions onto ballots are gaining traction in Sacramento.
We know, of course, that none of this will prevent antichoice groups and their allies from attempting to push later abortion restrictions into law and onto ballots.
Since the 2016 presidential election ― buoyed by the groundwork laid by activists involved with movements like Occupy Wall Street and, most significantly, Black Lives Matter ― that truth has become more visible, spilling out of women's bodies and into the streets and onto ballots.
Earlier this year, they stood accused of trying to tuck an extra Jewish candidate onto the ballot, to siphon support from Assemblyman Rory I. Lancman, who is Jewish.
