Legal wrangling notwithstanding, I think Will is right: this decision
opens the door (potentially) to chaos. While the NJ court urged that
voters needed to have a real choice, there is also a strain of
constitutional thought that says that they are also entitled to an
orderly, non-confusing electoral process.
The current decision opens the door for parties essentially to override
the nomination process if they don't like the candidate they have
running.
Mark E. Rush
Professor of Politics
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA 24450
http://home.wlu.edu/~rushm
(540) 458-8904
(540) 458-8639 (fax)
rick.hasen@lls.edu 10/04/02 01:38PM >>>
another view of the New Jersey situation, this one from George Will.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41199-2002Oct3.html