In Re: Nomination Paper of R. Nader, et al. (Majority Opinion)

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1317 Smith-Ribner 1173 68 1548 180 Friedman 183 9 22 9 13 Leadbetter (Mont) 342 13 16 21 Leadbetter (Phila) 486 119 555 85 Cohn Jubelirer 12 1 4 Simpson 23 2 Kelley 121 Kelley (Phila) 7516 3278 10794 69.63% 48 4506 Percent of reviewed lines stricken 1132 Total lines reviewed 1425 Running total of valid signatures 325 Total stricken 1988 Other McGinley & Pellegrini 1353 426 6772 5672 12444 54.42% 873 751 9437 3381 12818 73.62% Printed signature 72 568 0 168 111 338 Affidavit problems 237 Duplicate signatures 2100 Nicknames or initials Omitted information 714 Forged signatures Not registered at address 2304 Illegible signature Registered after date of sigining Information written in hand of another Not registered Colins 0 4 0 0 0 240 909 1149 20.89% 5 5 0 0 0 402 588 990 40.61% 0 55 0 0 12 1680 2040 3720 45.16% 0 0 1 3 22 5 48 162 210 22.86% 7 1 0 1 0 1 82 3 120 135 255 47.06% 9 36 23 3 0 0 0 2 4 51 10 259 632 891 29.07% 238 142 394 10 17 0 21 0 5 7 222 914 1970 948 2713 72.61% Flaherty 358 1 23 18 0 3 0 0 13 0 14 0 430 522 952 45.17% Mirarchi 240 65 255 141 1627 0 7 5 0 521 554 23 3438 270 3708 92.72% Jiuliante 38 2 26 12 0 0 0 11 1 37 16 143 273 416 34.38% 0 8 8 0.00% 32455 18818 51273 63.30% 368 0 0 Unchallenged TOTALS 7506 1470 6411 1869 7851 8 166 687 32 1087 1855 3513 President Judge Colins Page Summary Totals for Ralph Nader Nomination Papers* Not Page No. Registered 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 Not Registered at the Address Non-Existent Not Registered Address/Out of on Date Signed County Illegible Data Forgery Duplicate Omitted Withdrawn Blacklined By by Candidate Candidate Prior to at Heariing Submission 16 29 18 21 16 10 10 6 6 0 1 3 0 1 0 7 8 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 14 53 4 20 5 0 3 1 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 23 27 15 0 43 0 31 28 5 10 12 0 34 0 30 26 0 0 3 0 7 0 1 14 0 4 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 12 2 0 0 0 100 0 100 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 23 23 4 0 0 5 0 0 2 *Individual Page and Line Review Follows as Appendix A (507pages) 1 Stricken 55 61 63 0 31 76 0 28 45 32 100 88 100 76 71 0 0 0 57 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total Valid 49 49 17 16 24 20 55 18 22 34 39 53 Total Total % Review Struck ed 104 110 80 0 47 100 0 48 100 50 100 110 100 110 110 0 0 0 110 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 President Judge Colins Page Summary Totals for Ralph Nader Nomination Papers* Not Page No. Registered 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 Not Registered at the Address Non-Existent Not Registered Address/Out of on Date Signed County Illegible Data Forgery Duplicate Omitted Withdrawn By Candidate Blacklined Prior to Submission by Candidates 16 25 20 1 21 5 0 0 1 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 32 15 7 0 3 0 0 0 2 16 45 23 25 14 26 2 15 10 3 10 3 3 0 6 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 11 17 18 27 4 22 1 2 18 48 9 1 2 *Individual Page and Line Review Follows as Appendix A (507pages) 1 1 Total Total % Review Struck ed Total Valid Stricken 0 62 37 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 59 0 0 0 50 84 70 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 34 71 0 0 0 0 76 0 41 66 51 60 26 30 6 34 7 0 103 103 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 110 0 0 0 110 110 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 40 105 0 0 0 0 83 0 President Judge Colins Page Summary Totals for Ralph Nader Nomination Papers* Not Page No. Registered 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 Not Registered at the Address Non-Existent Not Registered Address/Out of on Date Signed County Illegible 2 2 Data Forgery Duplicate Omitted 15 24 18 35 7 4 11 13 9 22 10 38 22 30 19 8 6 36 29 12 29 5 4 9 11 11 3 4 8 17 6 10 3 1 1 3 2 1 6 2 3 7 17 6 8 27 9 17 6 7 10 8 11 9 18 15 9 5 15 3 2 6 7 1 6 1 3 0 0 6 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 110 7 9 29 18 8 28 20 16 17 11 5 18 17 2 10 8 2 1 11 10 0 0 4 0 1 3 6 6 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 6 21 26 15 17 8 7 13 12 8 1 4 0 3 0 1 1 2 0 100 0 0 1 Blacklined Prior to Submission by Candidates 0 0 0 0 6 Withdrawn By Candidate 1 2 1 5 1 2 14 2 3 1 4 9 1 3 1 5 4 19 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 *Individual Page and Line Review Follows as Appendix A (507pages) 7 6 13 8 2 1 Stricken 62 60 62 90 20 26 64 63 30 80 16 0 68 18 30 44 42 41 21 17 110 0 47 44 85 53 13 56 100 39 56 54 Total Valid 32 40 38 20 13 20 45 47 14 30 34 42 12 5 22 38 23 32 13 30 24 25 49 37 5 24 47 19 Total Total % Review Struck ed 94 100 100 110 33 46 109 110 44 110 50 0 110 30 35 66 80 64 53 30 110 0 77 68 110 102 50 61 100 63 103 73 President Judge Colins Page Summary Totals for Ralph Nader Nomination Papers* Not Page No. Registered 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 Not Registered at the Address Non-Existent Not Registered Address/Out of on Date Signed County Illegible Data Forgery Duplicate Omitted 32 35 13 9 24 21 1 8 2 0 4 0 0 1 0 1 5 2 12 14 12 4 0 59 37 25 38 21 8 37 20 11 30 45 16 1 0 0 4 10 5 2 1 0 2 5 0 14 27 7 1 Withdrawn Blacklined By Prior to Candidate Submission at Hearing by Candidates 0 1 0 4 0 0 1 109 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 84 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 1 0 3 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 *Individual Page and Line Review Follows as Appendix A (507pages) Stricken 0 43 79 39 109 46 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 84 99 58 36 74 93 31 0 0 0 0 0 52 4 Total Valid 66 10 22 21 1 24 0 1 16 29 26 7 22 48 106 Total Total % Review Struck ed 66 53 101 60 110 70 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 84 100 74 65 100 100 53 0 0 0 0 0 100 110 President Judge Colins Page Summary Totals for Ralph Nader Nomination Papers* Not Page No. Registered 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 Not Registered at the Address Non-Existent Not Registered Address/Out of on Date Signed County Illegible Data Forgery Duplicate Omitted Withdrawn Blacklined By Prior to Candidate Submission at Hearing by Candidates 11 13 13 14 27 10 9 16 6 3 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 31 23 19 11 15 3 0 0 0 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 42 10 2 0 5 0 0 0 0 *Individual Page and Line Review Follows as Appendix A (507pages) Total Valid Stricken 35 62 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 59 70 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 82 75 48 10 41 30 28 Total Total % Review Struck ed 110 110 39 0 0 0 0 0 0 100 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 110 President Judge Colins Page Summary Totals for Ralph Nader Nomination Papers* Not Page No. Registered 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 174 173 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 Not Registered at the Address Non-Existent Not Registered Address/Out of on Date Signed County Illegible Data Forgery Duplicate Omitted Withdrawn Blacklined By Prior to Candidate Submission at Hearing by Candidates 24 23 6 5 3 0 0 7 0 41 76 59 5 23 10 6 34 24 22 34 8 7 31 19 35 12 3 0 20 4 12 23 24 10 35 4 9 25 35 15 7 17 0 5 2 0 0 9 0 3 0 1 0 1 2 12 8 4 9 1 4 4 6 14 1 7 0 1 0 1 12 4 3 5 4 6 2 2 0 0 5 0 2 0 0 5 1 6 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 4 3 0 2 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 12 2 0 3 3 4 15 2 11 2 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 2 1 0 0 4 6 5 0 0 4 30 21 6 17 10 25 10 8 8 13 4 1 12 1 1 0 0 2 15 0 11 8 3 12 4 3 *Individual Page and Line Review Follows as Appendix A (507pages) 2 Total Valid Stricken 70 41 76 59 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 60 15 21 88 67 42 97 21 31 91 77 90 24 42 0 74 83 23 45 14 0 0 0 37 50 18 10 17 33 12 13 10 19 10 33 10 10 13 26 17 48 51 Total Total % Review Struck ed 84 41 76 59 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 45 110 33 31 105 100 54 110 31 50 101 110 100 34 55 0 100 100 71 96 President Judge Colins Page Summary Totals for Ralph Nader Nomination Papers* Not Page No. Registered 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 Not Registered at the Address Non-Existent Not Registered Address/Out of on Date Signed County 18 43 11 6 8 39 17 24 13 8 13 5 6 4 6 11 1 6 1 6 25 1 36 51 7 30 15 26 20 17 1 6 9 4 12 Illegible Data Forgery Duplicate Omitted 6 1 4 1 Withdrawn Blacklined By Prior to Candidate Submission at Hearing by Candidates 3 14 5 4 1 12 10 8 2 1 8 1 10 1 2 4 4 3 1 2 87 2 8 8 17 6 37 15 27 17 26 19 19 24 23 10 12 4 4 7 2 4 11 1 1 1 1 1 0 4 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 53 39 1 2 0 4 19 9 1 1 7 5 3 1 4 1 4 2 3 0 7 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 21 0 2 0 5 2 2 0 2 10 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 7 7 9 1 2 1 9 1 64 0 13 0 1 22 110 5 8 1 36 44 29 2 29 21 30 1 9 14 1 3 8 3 1 2 0 1 5 7 1 4 0 3 0 *Individual Page and Line Review Follows as Appendix A (507pages) 1 Stricken 90 93 66 36 31 0 58 35 72 92 41 87 38 51 50 51 45 74 36 62 25 64 98 20 58 110 18 0 3 87 89 72 Total Valid 20 14 44 15 22 52 1 38 18 69 13 31 40 53 15 15 26 5 8 25 0 7 5 13 0 6 3 23 21 38 Total Total % Review Struck ed 110 107 110 51 53 0 110 36 110 110 110 100 69 91 103 66 60 100 41 70 50 64 105 25 71 110 24 0 6 110 110 110 President Judge Colins Page Summary Totals for Ralph Nader Nomination Papers* Not Page No. Registered 225 226 227 228 229 230 TOTAL Not Registered at the Address Non-Existent Not Registered Address/Out of on Date Signed County Illegible Data Forgery Duplicate Omitted Withdrawn Blacklined By Prior to Candidate Submission at Hearing by Candidates 0 87 88 71 70 82 87 88 41 53 20 17 2 8 82 2304 2100 714 271 72 237 568 168 791 *Individual Page and Line Review Follows as Appendix A (507pages) Total Valid Stricken 291 7516 0 0 29 30 0 Total Total % Review Struck ed 0 87 88 100 100 82 3278 10794 0.696313

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