Mainstream Republicans are proposing an unusual way to reverse action by GOP hard-liners that would disqualify candidates who gather signatures on the ballot: legislation that would essentially force the party to behave as though the previous move had never happened.
“What we are saying is you can’t change the rules once the election has already started,” McKell said, referring to last week’s vote by conservative members of the Republican State Central Committee to disqualify candidates in some races from collecting signatures to get on the ballot.
“We’re simply saying, ‘Party, you made an election in November and that’s what we’re going to recognize: those rules.