Posted by demlosers On 08/09/2004 3:41:20 PM PDT · 1 reply · 1+ view
Post Gazette ^ | Monday, August 09, 2004 Associated Press HARRISBURG — Ballot petitions circulated in Philadelphia for independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader contained a surprising number of fictitious signatures, said a lawyer who planned to challenge the petitions today. Gregory M. Harvey, a Philadelphia attorney who helped oversee a review of the petitions ordered by Democratic leaders of the state House of Representatives, said usually no more than 10 to 15 percent of petition signatures are false. In the case of Nader’s petitions, he said there were an “enormous number,” including one sheet of 100 names on which 92 of the supposed signers could not be verified....
-- Michael Pugliese