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| Baum Asks US Supreme Court to Intervene, Place Her on S.F. November Ballot. |
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Terry Baum for Congress URGENT NEWS ADVISORY SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- Green Party congressional candidate Terry Baum announced Thursday she has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene and immediately place her on the November ballot in the 8th CD (San Francisco), now held by House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. In late August, the California Supreme Court refused to hear the case and let stand a ruling by San Francisco Superior Court, which prevents Baum from being put on the ballot as the Green Party candidate although Baum collected enough write-in votes to be nominated in the March Primary. Baum, in her Petition for Certiorari, to the Supreme Court, argues that the ballot instructions for write-in voting in San Francisco were so convoluted that they, in effect, constituted a literacy test, which violates the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The petition notes that a very high percentage of Green Party voters â?" probably more than 20 percent â?" failed the de facto test. Although they wrote in the name properly, they did not comply with the rest of the instructions calling for them to fill in an arrow next to the write-in name. The city views that write-in votes are optional and believes it did not have to follow all election laws, such as the Voting Rights Act, and disregarded most of the election code except for one part that the city used to invalidate hundreds of votes for Terry Baum, said the campaign in a statement released Thursday afternoon.
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