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Christina Tobin and her friends are true crusaders for real democracy.<br>
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The world needs more people like Christina to help fight the entrenched
plutocratic oligarchy that runs Amerika and much of the world as we
know it.<br>
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here's the link to nader's letter. christina's commentary below.<br>
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href="http://www.freeandequal.org/2011/06/open-letter-from-ralph-nader-to-chief-justice-ronald-castille/">http://www.freeandequal.org/2011/06/open-letter-from-ralph-nader-to-chief-justice-ronald-castille/</a><br>
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<td>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:05:12 -0400 (EDT)</td>
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<td>Christina Tobin <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:christina@freeandequal.org"><christina@freeandequal.org></a></td>
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<p
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letter from Ralph Nader to Chief Justice Ronald Castille</p>
<p
style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">In
2004, the Presidential campaign of Ralph Nader submitted signatures on
a petition, to obtain a line on the ballot in Pennsylvania. It is a
matter of public record that state employees working for the
Pennsylvania House Democratic Caucus illegally prepared a challenge to
the Nader-Camejo nomination petitions at taxpayer expense. Many of
these challenges were based on technicalities like failing to include a
ZIP code along with a signer's address, failure to put the year in the
date, or using initials in the name, although the validity of the
signature itself was not disputed.</p>
<p
style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">What
makes this case particularly egregious is that, without any precedent
whatsoever anywhere in the United States, a court fined the Nader
campaign $81,102.19 for legal costs. As Nader put it, this "threatens
candidates with financial ruin if they defend their right to run for
public office" and has a chilling effect on the exercise of First
Amendment rights.</p>
<p
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improving ballot access laws in the United States.</p>
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