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The outcome would either be a victory for the Democrats or a victory for the Republicans. So what part is fishy?
On top of that, Nevada's governor is a Republican.
Nah, keeping Stein on the ballot (for this reason) would be a win for our democracy. If there's a credible case to formally accuse her of being a Russian asset and bar her from participation on those grounds I'm happy to see it go through. This is just arbitrary and authoritarian. I'm not okay with embracing authoritarianism to overcome fascism - there are better tools to beat Trump.
Yea, I'm familiar with the photo - that's why I mentioned a case to formally bar her above. That photo could lead to an absolutely valid prohibition on participating in elections - so let's go that route instead of bureaucratic bullshit.
Or campaigns could be expected to pay attention to the text of a document given to them.
Let's say you wanted to replace your bathtub and went to the city to get a permit to work on shared building plumbing - you get the form for "Water basin modifications" and pass it off to be signed by your contractor and the building's HOA council and then add all the relevant details about sizing and materials involved.
You return the form and are told to await a response by mail... six weeks later it hasn't arrived. It turns out that "Water basin modification" form you were issued was actually for replacing an underlayer but limited to showers - you actually needed the "Water (standing) basin modification" form that was valid for bathtubs. Now everything you did with the form (getting it signed by various parties, filling in sizing and material information) was correct - so wouldn't it be really nice if the clerk handling your form had said "Whoops lets just staple the form you filled out to the correct one and notarize the correction, then we can file it and send you a reply" instead of just rejecting it without a clear reason?
People working in these systems can be reasonable and flexible.
Terrible analogy. Replacing my bathtub is not the same as running for president and doesn't come with anything close to the responsibilities.
This is literally just a case of not reading the fine print.
I'm not trying to get the state of Nevada to select me to replace bathtubs for the federal government. (Neither is Jill in this analogy, of course, she is a Russian asset. But for sake of argument.)
Weird little strawman comparison replacing nationwide responsibility with individual responsibility and an entire campaign team expected to be able to fill out forms with an individual assumed to be unfamiliar with them.
Also, if I get fucked over by the city because I didn't read the fine print, that's my problem. If the president gets fucked over because they don't read the fine print, that's the country's problem.
Analogies aren't always strawmen, I wrote that up to make the situation more relatable since it's easy to criticize bureaucracy as being obvious until you're knee deep in it.
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No? If Stein will be disqualified I want it to go through the courts rather than being at the whims of bureaucracy.
I'd like an actual burden of proof for someone to be ineligible to run for president.
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I'm aware, but it's for bureaucratic reasons and has nothing to do with everyone who is celebrating by posting the pictures of her dining with Putin. I think this particular route to disqualification is rather silly and likely to be a abused by bad actors in the future... so the democrats suing to keep her off the ballot is bad for PR, functionally accomplishes nothing in view of the wider election, and may come back to bite them. It's really disappointing they picked up this fight.
Someone who's campaign doesn't bother to read the forms they're submitting to be included on the ballot should not be considered a serious candidate. Russian stooge or not Stein is incompetent and uncommitted to her espoused ideals.