id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
commonwealth-469	Potts, Blyden	The Removal of Carl Romanelli from Pennsylvania's 2006 U.S. Senate Ballot	2009	27	.pdf	application/pdf	11204	528	55	The study argues that the state’s legal process for challenging signatures on ballot access petitions imposes a greater burden on independent and minor party candidates than the letter of the law suggests; that Pennsylvania signature thresholds are arbitrary and unjust; and that the signature challenge process is motivated more by partisan political considerations than by a genuine public interest in preventing signature fraud. Drawing on past legal precedent and supported by the courts, the Democrats were able to apply to many signatures a number of narrow legal requirements in such a way as to pervert the spirit of the law.	cache/commonwealth-469.pdf	txt/commonwealth-469.txt