However, Hagelin did not timely file the required certification of his selection for vice president with the Secretary of State and those signatures received before the filing of the certification of his selection were invalidated by the Secretary of State. As a result, Hagelin no longer had the required number of signatures necessary to be placed on the general election ballot. The primary issue for the plaintiff applicants is whether the Secretary of State was correct to invalidate those signatures. This does not raise the same question of law or fact with regard to the matter asserted by Nader. It would inject issues foreign to Nader and would unduly delay and prejudice the adjudication of the claimed rights of plaintiffs.
Time is short and the deadline for the preparation of ballots is fast approaching.
If plaintiff applicants felt aggrieved, they should have acted long ago to bring their own lawsuit.