September 25, 2006
Romanelli Kicked Off PA SEN Ballot
The Green Party's candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania, Carl Romanelli, is no longer on the ballot. 
Which is unqualified good news for Dem Bob Casey Jr.
Romanelli may appeal and hopes that a ruling in related case may vault him back on...
Romanelli's lawyer had argued that many of the signatures were incorrectly invalidated because of problems with the state's computerized voter registry, but Kelley concluded that it was too late to take up that claim. Pennsylvania law requires minor-party and independent candidates to collect a number of signatures equal to 2 percent of the ballots cast for the largest vote-getter in the most recent statewide election. This year's threshold was based on Casey's record vote count in winning the treasurer's office in 2004, resulting in an unusually high number. Lawrence Otter, Romanelli's lawyer, has argued that the number of signatures should be based on last year's retention vote for state Supreme Court Justice Russell Nigro, who lost his bid to remain on the bench.
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