Invalid signatures cast doubt on Nader earning spot on Pennsylvania ballot

[Nambe]

PHILADELPHIA (AP)

Lawyers for eight people sympathetic to Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry claimed in a lawsuit that more than 37,000 of the 47,000 signatures that Nader supporters submitted in early August were either forged or flawed.

Volunteers for the Nader campaign have been reviewing the challenged signatures, and attorney Samuel Stretton told a three- judge Commonwealth Court panel Friday that the results have not been promising.

Of the 1,371 signatures examined so far, nearly 75% have problems that could result in their elimination, Stretton said. More than half contained an invalid signature, 4% were by people not registered to vote during a required period and 17% were registered at an address different from the one listed on the petition.

A separate statistical analysis of 300 randomly selected signatures yielded similar results, Stretton said. ..

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[tom_paine]

1. Oh, he's DEFINITELY gettin' help from the Buseviks!

NO ONE does corruption like them.

No one.

[Mad As Hell]

2. Yeah baby.

Did you hear Peter Camejo on C-Span this morning? He said Ralph is the only one who reads, that John Kerry doesn't read, so that Ralph is the only one who understands the issues. He was as strident as any Bush surrogate I've heard.

[iamjoy]

3. Sad It Has To Get So Dirty....(eom)

[MikeG]

4. What nimrod has homeless people get signatures for him?

"Will petition for food"