Oops!
As the nuns who struggled valiantly to teach me in grade school were inclined to point out, I'm not always the sharpest tool in the shed. So the notoriously arcane nuances of Pennsylvania's election law sometimes get past me.
An alert reader pointed out that I wrote something incorrect about the upcoming primary. I double-checked it with the Pennsylvania Department of State, and dang if he wasn't right.
I had written that candidates who didn't get the requisite number of nomination petition signatures prior to last month's deadline can mount a write-in campaign, but won't appear on the April primary or November general election ballots. That's not entirely true.
They won't appear on the April ballot. But they still have a chance to get on the November ballot if they get write-in votes in the primary. The catch is that they have to get a number of write-in votes equal to or greater than the number of nomination petition signatures they would have needed to get on the primary ballot in the first place.
Unless it's a full moon, in which case ... OK, now I'm just being goofy. About the full moon part, anyway. The rest of it is true.
Sorry about that, chief. What can I say? It's not the first time I've been wrong about something. Back in 1996, I bought a Goo Goo Dolls album. God, what was I thinking?
Michele · March 4, 2008 05:16 PM
You suck. I just wanted to remind you.