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...shortly after the assassination of prominent Sunni cleric Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai. Less Than Total Recall VENEZUELA President Hugo Chávez declared himself ready to face a recall vote after the National Electoral Council confirmed that opponents had gathered more than the 2.4 million signatures required for the ballot. But officials have yet to agree on a date: should Chávez be recalled before Aug. 19, new elections will be held. A recall after that date would hand power to Chávez's deputy until 2006. Lost Leader U.S. A district court in California convicted former Ukrainian Prime...
...afford to miss any opportunity. So Ralph Nader had a few tips for the small group of volunteers who were brainstorming last Wednesday night at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., a state where an independent presidential candidate needs 10,000 signatures to get on the ballot. "It's a very good time to be doing it right now, at graduations," Nader ventured, "and sporting events and churches." Someone else proposed canvassing obvious lefty hangouts like vegan restaurants and bookstore cafes. The volunteers briefly debated waylaying people on bike paths, and then decided doing so would probably annoy them...
This time Nader faces a different challenge of his own. Whereas the consumer advocate got onto nearly every state ballot as the Green Party nominee four years ago, Nader is now trying to do it the hard way--as an independent. He says he wants to start a political movement that would transcend party labels. But his independent status requires him to make his way through a dizzying set of rules and deadlines. To get on the ballot in Tennessee, he needs the signatures of only 275 registered voters; in North Carolina it takes 100,532. Nader fell at least...
...Arizona, where a poll shows Nader pulling what could be a decisive 7% of the vote, state Democratic chairman Jim Pederson says the party has assembled a team of lawyers to look at every one of the signatures Nader collects. "Our first objective is to keep him off the ballot," Pederson says. "This vote is about George Bush and John Kerry, and we think it distorts the entire electoral process to have his name on the ballot...
Nader acknowledges that getting on the ballot as an independent is like "climbing a cliff with a slippery rope." But he could be getting a leg up from various third parties. The idea is to have it both ways: collect their endorsements--and their access to a line on various state ballots--but maintain his "independent" aura. Two weeks ago, he won the nod of the Reform Party, Perot's old outfit, which would automatically put him on the ballot in seven states, including battlegrounds Florida and Michigan, if he chooses. And although Nader says he doesn't want...