The Democrat Party, which claims to represent the common man, and continually shouts about "counting every vote" and "disenfranchisement", has successfully sued to keep Ralph Nader off the ballot in Arizona.

Zeese said the campaign submitted 21,185 signatures to the Arizona Board of Elections but, due to a legal challenge from the Democratic Party, more than 6,400 of the signatures were disallowed.

"They litigated us out of the race," Zeese said of the Democratic Party, labeling the court challenge "underhanded harassment."

Arizona Democratic Party Chairman Jim Pederson said that Nader did the "only honorable thing" by withdrawing his name in the state.

CNN doesn't say why the signatures are invalid, you have to go to MSNBC to find that out. Apparently the Democrats are claiming that many of the signatures were not from registered voters. Another complaint was that the signatures were gathered by convicted felons, and should be invalidated.

I guess the Dems didn't like Nader horning in on their action. Felons are only good for registering Democrats to vote, not for gathering signatures for non-Democrat candidates.

Speaking of unregistered voters, in Atlanta, Democrats routinely rented passenger vans on election day and rounded up bums vagrants homeless urban outdoorsman. They would give them cigarettes and bus them over to the polls so that they can cast a vote for their candidate.

And of course, don't forget that whole Toricelli ballot switcheroo up in New Jersey, where the 108 year old Frank Lautenberg was allowed to be substituted at the last minute after it became obvious that Toricelli would be lucky to stay out of jail defeated in a landslide.