AP: Pa. Dems Target Green Party Candidates

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Pa. Dems Target Green Party Candidates

By MARTHA RAFFAELE
The Associated Press
Tuesday, August 8, 2006; 11:06 PM

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- The Pennsylvania Democratic Party objected Tuesday
to signatures collected by three Green Party candidates, including
a challenger in one of the nation's most hotly contested U.S. Senate races.

The Democrats asked a court to remove the candidates from the November ballot.
The candidates have said they jointly collected at least 90,000 valid signatures
_ far more than the 67,070 needed to qualify for the ballot.

But the Democrats alleged in a Commonwealth Court filing that more than 69,000
included fake names, names of unregistered voters and illegible signatures.

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Democrats have accused Republican Sen. Rick Santorum's campaign of financing
signature-gathering effort. They also said Santorum campaign workers helped collect
signatures for Green Party Senate candidate Carl Romanelli, saying one staff member
traveled to locations hundreds of miles apart on a single day.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/08/AR2006080801038.html