Kerry Edwards sued as conspirators

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If Nader could actually legally get on the ballots this wouldn't be an issue, however in most of these cases Nader is getting on the ballot ILLEGALLY, thats what the Democrats are challenging.

In any state their are various rules and regulations about the process of getting on the ballot.  One of those in many states with 3rd party candidates involves signatures and where the signatures come from.  While an Individual republican or Democrat can sign in order to get  a 3rd Part candidate on the ballot their can't be any correlation between the Republican or Democrat part as a whole as getting the signatures to get the 3rd Party candidate on the ballot.  That is what is going on in many of these states.  The republican Party as A WHOLE is cordniating efforts to get Naderas many signatures possible to get on the ballot, NOT Individual Republicans which is legal, but the party as a whole which is illegal in most cases.  So what the Democrats are challenging is the legality of many of these signatures since they were organized by the Republican Party.

Bottom line is a tad shady that the Dems are rying to block Nader from getting on the ballot, granted, however so is cordinating efforts to get a 3rd Party candidate on the ballot to help your own party.  Laws are laws, if Nader LEGALLY gets on the ballot, with his own supporters fine he can do that, and its all good & legal, but efforts from within the Republican Party to get him on the ballot isn't right nor is it legal in most cases, and the Dems have every right to challenge it because Nader is getting on the ballot in a legal manner.

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The case in Oregon surely could be made out to be, and all the other states could be defined as harassment.  Oregon could also be taken down the rought of infringement on his 1st amendment right by barring those he wishes to communicate with (though I hate suits based on the 1st amendment, since it is so subjective).

& the Republicans organized event so they were lining up in Oregon also so they could sign a petiton for Nader even though they were Bush supporters and had no intention of voting for Nader violating the spirit of the petiotn rule.  

Both sides have their hands dirty on this one