RFK Jr disqualified from New York ballot, judge rules
RFK Jr disqualified from New York ballot, judge rules
The independent presidential candidate was not truthful about his New York home address, a court hears.
Independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr does not meet the legal requirement of a New York resident and therefore cannot be on the state's election ballot, a judge has ruled.
Kennedy's claim of a New York address as his "place of residence" on nominating petitions was a "false statement", said Judge Christina Ryba.
“Given the size and appearance of the spare bedroom as shown in the photographs admitted into evidence, the Court finds Kennedy’s testimony that he may return to that bedroom to reside with his wife, family members, multiple pets, and all of his personal belongings to be highly improbable, if not preposterous,” the judge wrote.
As a result, the petitions were considered invalid. Mr Kennedy has rejected the judge's ruling and vows to appeal.
Why doesn’t he just claim residence where he actually lives?
That won't get him on the ballots he wants to siphon votes from, which is the entire purpose of his campaign.
He can't put anywhere else, because his legal residence is in New York.
But he lives in California.
If you don't actually reside at your legal residence, it's invalid. It's like moving to a new house and not updating your driver's license. You don't get to claim that you live at your old house - your license just becomes invalid until you fix it.
Oh no, I guess he'll never be president now. How sad.
The scary part is that, according to John Oliver, he could be Trump's secretary of HHS if elected. Which is close to as bad in his case.
Okay I'm not in any way shape or form a fan or advocate for Kennedy, in fact I find him ridiculous in every way conceivable but I'm very confused. Since when does a presidential candidate need to have a residence in the state in order to be on the ballot?
It's not that he has to have a residence in New York, it's that the address that he listed as his residence, in New York, on the application for candidacy submitted to New York, isn't really his residence. The article mentions other states may follow suit with the applications he submitted to them.
Maybe we should stop asking people their residence to get on the ballot. Before you know it people will just start writing in "prison"
Haha, Nice one.
He was really gonna split the crazy person vote too...
Here is his acknowledgement and explanation if anyone is interested:
so he doesn't live in new york, but he got his falcon license there.
Why should anyone care?
You have to be a homeowner in New York to run for president?
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Invalidating 150,000 petitions on a technicality. Corruption at the highest level. Shameful behavior by ClearChoice and the Democrats.
Imagine defending someone breaking a clear as day law with intent to deceive.
"RFK Jr played stupid games and lied about something as stupid as where he lives.
ITS OBVIOUSLY THE DEMOCRATS FAULT! SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
Maybe people should not be doing as much fuckery with addresses, etc that they end up being taken to court.
He knew damn well that this was a shell address at best. So claiming this as your primary residence is asking for trouble.
There are plenty of other reasons he could have gotten I to trouble for this..requesting a liquor license for example.. and in these cases he would have also been deemed ineligible.
This turd just cose to test the validity of his claim of residence during the most high stakes most scrutinized process in the US. And got slapped down.. shocked pickachu face.
Lol