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Candidates should be properly vetted

May 18, 2012 @ 12:00 AM

Secretary of State Natalie Tennant has said she was obligated under state law and the U.S. Constitution to allow a federal prison inmate in Texas to be on the Democratic presidential primary ballot in West Virginia. She failed to demonstrate due diligence which required, at the time of accepting any request to place a candidate on our state's election ballot, an attempt is made to confirm the true identity of a proposed candidate. If that one logical step had been properly carried out to vet this candidate, a huge RED FLAG should have gone up!
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