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		<title>Florida Files U.S. Supreme Court Brief in Case on Petitioning at the Polls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On March 19, Florida filed this brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Citizens for Police Accountability v Browning, 09-861.  This is the case on whether Florida is violating the U.S. Constitution by letting exit pollsters work within 25 feet of the entrance to polling places on election day, but not letting petition circulators [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ballot-access.org/2010/03/20/florida-files-u-s-supreme-court-brief-in-case-on-petitioning-at-the-polls/</link>
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		<title>Constitution Party Petitioning for one West Virginia U.S. House Seat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Constitution Party is currently petitioning to place one U.S. House candidate on the West Virginia ballot.  He is Phil Hudok, running in the 2nd district.  His web page, http://www.hudok.com, is here.  His web page has a blank petition form.  He needs 2,582 valid signatures by August 1.
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		<link>http://www.ballot-access.org/2010/03/20/constitution-party-petitioning-for-one-west-virginia-u-s-house-seat/</link>
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		<title>Mountain Party of West Virginia Has Five Candidates This Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Mountain Party of West Virginia is that state&#8217;s affiliate of the Green Party.  This year it has chosen to nominate by primary rather than by convention.  Therefore, anyone who wanted to run as a Mountain Party candidate was required to file for the primary by January 30.
Five individuals filed, either for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ballot-access.org/2010/03/20/mountain-party-of-west-virginia-has-five-candidates-this-year/</link>
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		<title>North Carolina Files Brief in Lawsuit on Independent Candidate Ballot Access for U.S. House</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On March 18, North Carolina filed this response brief in Greene v Bartlett, the case pending in U.S. District Court over the state&#8217;s ballot access laws for independent candidates for U.S. House.  They are so severe, they have never been used for U.S. House, in the entire history of government-printed ballots in North Carolina. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ballot-access.org/2010/03/20/north-carolina-files-brief-in-lawsuit-on-independent-candidate-ballot-access-for-u-s-house/</link>
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		<title>Delaware Minor Parties Get Publicity for Complaint Against Implementing Tougher Ballot Access Rules in 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On February 1, 2010, Delaware Governor Jack Markell signed HB 245 into law.  Among other things, it doubled the number of registered voters a party must have to be ballot-qualified, and it went into effect immediately.
The bill instantly removed several minor parties from the ballot, including the Constitution, Green, and Working Families Parties.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ballot-access.org/2010/03/20/delaware-minor-parties-get-publicity-for-complaint-against-implementing-tougher-ballot-access-rules-in-2010/</link>
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		<title>Portland, Maine Press-Herald Thinks Maine Ballot Access is Too Easy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Portland, Maine daily newspaper, the Portland Press Herald, has this editorial in its March 17 issue.  The editorial says it is now too easy for an independent candidate to get on the November ballot.
This is ironic, because in 2008, Maine was one of only three states in which there were no minor party [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ballot-access.org/2010/03/20/portland-maine-daily-newspaper-thinks-maine-ballot-access-is-too-easy/</link>
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		<title>Georgia Legislature Now Has 4 Bills to Improve Ballot Access</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On March 18, a fourth bill was introduced in the Georgia legislature to improve ballot access.  Representatives Stephanie Benfield (D-Decatur) and John Lunsford (R-McDonough) introduced HB 1425.  It removes all petition requirements for independent and minor party candidates.
If this bill were to pass, the number of candidates on general election ballots would still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ballot-access.org/2010/03/20/georgia-legislature-now-has-4-bills-to-improve-ballot-access/</link>
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		<title>Florida U.S. Senate Candidate Keeps Veterans Party Alive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dennis F. Bradley is the Veterans Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Florida in 2010.  Because the Veterans Party is ballot-qualified in Florida, Bradley will have no trouble appearing on the general election ballot.
Bradley was also the U.S. Senate nominee of the Veterans Party in Florida in 2004.  He polled 166,642 votes, 2.24%. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ballot-access.org/2010/03/20/florida-u-s-senate-candidate-keeps-veterans-party-alive/</link>
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		<title>Mississippi Governor Signs Bill Setting a 5 p.m. Deadline for Presidential Elector Paperwork</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On March 19, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour signed SB 3058.  It sets a 5 p.m. deadline for presidential elector paperwork.  The old law set the deadline date, but not an hour.  This bill only came into existence because of the 2008 incident at which the Secretary of State&#8217;s office rejected the paperwork [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ballot-access.org/2010/03/19/mississippi-governor-signs-bill-setting-a-5-p-m-deadline-for-presidential-elector-paperwork/</link>
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		<title>Former Legislator to Run For North Carolina County Commission as Write-in Candidate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article says former North Carolina legislator Cary Allred will be a write-in candidate this year for County Commission in Alamance County.  Allred is now a registered independent.
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		<link>http://www.ballot-access.org/2010/03/19/former-legislator-to-run-for-north-carolina-county-commission-as-write-in-candidate/</link>
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