Democratic candidate for U.S. Congress District FL-14, Larry Byrnes is challenging an unfair and undemocratic ruling that has kept him off the ballot for this August.  

The Republican-controlled Florida Division of Elections (which you may remember from its recent appearance in the movie Recount) has determined that Byrnes will be a write-in candidate in August, defying the will of the people and the intent of the law.  Laws like the one used to keep Byrnes off the ballot are meant to prevent voter fraud and to help ensure that the will of the people is reflected at election time.  

On April 15, 2008, Byrnes received a letter telling him that he had qualified as a candidate in the upcoming election.  They didn't tell him that he needed anything further.  He later noticed that his name was not appearing on the elections website.  He called the division and learned that he had not submitted a required notarized loyalty oath, which was required to be submitted the following day.  He sent it by overnight courier and it arrived by the deadline.  After the deadline, he was told that he had submitted the wrong loyalty oath.  He had inadvertently signed the loyalty oath for a write-in candidate, not a Democrat.

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