Court Orders Nader to Pay Legal Costs

The Associated Press reports that Commonwealth Court has ruled former presidential candidate Ralph Nader must pay the costs involved with the legal suit tossing them off the ballot in 2004. When their petitions were found to be filled with fraudulent signatures they were declared ineligible. The Court determined this means they must pay the costs involved.

This is one more example and reason to outlaw the use of paid canvassers to gather petition signatures.

The Commonwealth Court opinion, issued after three weeks of hearings by 12 judges, described the Nader-Camejo petitions as "the most deceitful and fraudulent exercise ever perpetrated upon this court" and that it "shocks the conscience."

Two thirds of the 51,000 signatures were found to be fraudulent. That's inexcusable.