Green Party v. Aichele

MEMORANDUM

DALZELL, District Judge.

The question before us is whether the Commonwealth’s requirement that circula-tors of nomination papers for a candidate who seeks to appear on the general election ballot in Pennsylvania use different nomination papers for each county uncon*683stitutionally burdens plaintiffs’ First Amendment speech rights. For the reasons detailed below, we conclude this challenged statutory provision — the sole issue remaining among plaintiffs’' twenty-nine constitutional and statutory challenges to the Pennsylvania Election Code — is a reasonable, nondiscriminatory…