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"Illegal" means contrary to the law. Plenty of things that are illegal but carry no criminal penalties. As a practical matter, the court would rule that sham c
by ccleve 5y ago
"Illegal" means contrary to the law. Plenty of things that are illegal but carry no criminal penalties.
As a practical matter, the court would rule that sham candidates are impermissible, and then their opponents would have an opportunity to remove them from the ballot via a civil lawsuit, or seek sanctions again whoever put them up, or collect civil damages, or in an extreme case overturn an election altogether.
- cguess 5y agoThis more seems like the Republicans are trying to tar a democratic candidate who will definitely win with some very slight of hand statements about "hispanics." Most likely it seems like there were two other people with historically-hispanic last names who also entered the election. Chicago is pretty damn hispanic if you haven't been there before and Chicago Democratic politics are especially contentious and nasty. This feels like a rat-f** job