Herman Blankenship v. J. Kenneth Blackwell, Ohio Secretary of State, Benson A. Wolman, Intervenors-Appellees

OPINION

BATCHELDER, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs-Appellants are five Ohio residents who served as members of a committee to qualify Ralph Nader and Peter Camejo (hereinafter, “Nader”) as independent joint candidates for President and Vice-President of the United States on the Ohio ballot in the election of 2004. They appeal the dismissal of their claim for a declaratory judgment, in which they asked that Ohio’s law requiring circulators of nominating petitions to be residents of, and registered voters in, the state of Ohio, be declared in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the…