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guy, go back and read my next post. I was up one level of abstraction. It's about molding the electoral battlefield in your favor using the legal/bureaucratic system. And yes, in that respect it's exactly the same. Obviously candidates aren't voters. But petitioners are, and by striking their signatures you're "disenfranchising" them from participating in the democratic process, too, right? It's not all that different. In concept it's exactly the same, it's just an issue of which effort you want to make: going after voter rolls takes more work than going after candidate petitions, so it's less efficient. But depriving voters of the chance to vote for someone they want to vote for, which is what striking a candidate does, is not very different from what you're complaining about.
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