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Renew Deal

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12. It's probably 10,000 registered republicans.

Reply to SixthSense (Reply #10)

Fri Dec 23, 2011, 11:44 AM

Dec 2011

And each candidate probably needs to be the first to get a signature from the voter. Why can't it be 5,000 signatures or 2,500 signatures? It's intentional. In NY it's 15K signatures distributed through most of the congressional districts. McCain sued NY state over this in 2000 and won.

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not this one SixthSense Dec 2011 #10

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