Our legislators have violated the contract with the people known as the Constitution for the United States and the Constitution for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. All of our legislators have gone to great lengths to keep anybody but Democrats and Republicans off the ballots and show no shame in doing so, even at the expense of violating what they swore to uphold.

The Legislature and the Courts are violating the rights of suffrage by violating Article 1 Section 2, Clause 2, Article 4 Section 4, 1^st Amendment, 9^th Amendment and the 10^th Amendment to the Constitution for the United States and the Bill of Rights. Also they are violating Article 1 Section 1, Article 1 Section 2, Article 1 Section 5, Article 1 Section 7, Article 1 Section 25, and Article 1 Section 26 of the Constitution for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III said a formula that requires minor party candidates to collect 67,070 signatures last year is constitutional and reflects a legitimate state interest. Jones also wrote that he is not "a super-legislature, but rather a court of law, and thus we decline to supplant our wisdom in place of that of the Commonwealth's elected officials." This Judge was dead wrong. It absolutely is his (or the courts) duty to overturn legislation which is in contradiction with the Constitutions. It clearly is in the States interest to give its citizens more choices than the once 2 now 1 party system. This clearly shows that our legislature and this judge and all of our courts are in violation of their oath of office.

One of the most important qualifications to the Founding Fathers was that to run for office or to elect one for office you must know the Constitution for the United States and the state where you are a citizen. The Constitutions are the frame work for which our government must operate. Without complete knowledge of what is in our Constitutions our Republican form of government which is guaranteed in Article 4 Section 4 of the Constitution for the United States would be lost and destroyed by people voting for men and women who will make promises of powers not granted them (like all giveaway programs which makes people more dependent on government instead of themselves) for votes.  There was a provision in our 1776 Constitution for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Section 32 which stated: All elections, whether by the people or in general assembly, shall be by ballot, free and voluntary: And any elector, who shall receive any gift or reward for his vote, in meat, drink, monies, or otherwise, shall forfeit his right to elect for that time, and suffer such other penalties as future laws shall direct. And any person who shall directly or indirectly give, promise, or bestow any such rewards to be elected, shall be thereby rendered incapable to serve for the ensuing year. How convenient that that was left out of the illegal changes to our Constitution since that time.

Founding Father James Wilson had this to say about elections. “As the doctrine concerning elections and the qualifications of electors is, in every free country, a doctrine of the first magnitude; and as the national constitution has, with regard to this doctrine, rested itself on the governments of the several states; it will be highly proper to take a survey of those provisions, which, on a subject so interesting, have been made by the different state constitutions: for every state has justly deemed the subject to be of constitutional importance.

In the constitution of Pennsylvania, the great principle, which animates and governs this subject, is secured by an explicit declaration, that "elections shall be free and equal." This is enumerated among the great points, which are "excepted out of the general powers of government, and shall for ever remain inviolate." The practical operation of this great and inviolable principle is thus specified and directed: "In elections by the citizens, every freeman of the age of twenty one years, having resided in the state two years next before the election, and within that time paid a state or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least six months before the election, shall enjoy the rights of an elector."

It well deserves, in this place, to be remarked, how congenial, upon this great subject, the principles of the constitution of Pennsylvania are to those adopted by the government of the Saxons. The Saxon freemen, as we have already seen, had votes in making their general laws. The freemen of Pennsylvania, as we now see, enjoy the rights of electors. This right, it has been shown, is equivalent, and, in a state of any considerable extent, must, on every principle of order and convenience, be substituted to the other. This is far from being the only instance, in which we shall have the pleasure of finding the old Saxon maxims of government renewed in the American constitutions. Particular attention will be paid to them, as they present themselves……From the foregoing enumeration--its length and its minuteness will be justified by its importance--from the foregoing enumeration of the provisions, which have been made, in the several states, concerning the right of suffrage, we are well warranted, I think, in drawing this broad and general inference--that, in the United States, this right is extended to every freeman, who, by his residence, has given evidence of his attachment to the country, who, by having property, or by being in a situation to acquire property, possesses a common interest with his fellow citizens; and who is not in such uncomfortable circumstances, as to render him necessarily dependent, for his subsistence, on the will of others.

By the same enumeration, we are enabled, with conscious pleasure, to view and to display the close approximation, which, on this great subject, the constitutions of the American States have made, to what we have already seen to be the true principles and the correct theory of freedom.

Again; the same enumeration places in the strongest and most striking light, the wisdom and the generous confidence, which rested one of the principal pillars of the national government upon the foundation prepared for it by the governments of the several states.”

As a free people we should be ashamed that less than half of the people are registered to vote (even though registration as it is done is un-constitutional), and only half or less of who are registered votes. This is because we are left with no choice but the lesser of two evils. I for one will not accept having only a limited choice on Election Day. The lesser of 2 evils is still evil.

The people of Pennsylvania should rise up and demand as the Constitution for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania states: Elections shall be free and equal; and no power, civil or military, shall at any time interfere to prevent the free exercise of the right of suffrage.