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Court Sides With Minor Parties in Ohio
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Sep 07, 2006 01:34pm |
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| Category | Legal Ruling |
| Media | TV News - Columbia Broadcasting System CBS News |
| News Date | Thursday, September 7, 2006 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Ohio's rules for primary elections make it too hard for minor parties to get on the ballot, a federal appeals court ruled.
In a 2-1 opinion, a U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals panel said the rules requiring candidates from all parties to participate in a primary by filing petitions with signatures 120 days before the election were unnecessarily strict and tougher for small parties to meet.
The court ruled Ohio's rules violate the First Amendment and have "a negative impact ... on minor parties and on political activity as a whole in Ohio."
Ohio's Libertarian Party had appealed a lower court's decision to throw out its 2004 lawsuit against Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, who didn't allow the party's candidates on the ballot that year because of problems with petitions. |
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