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Eighth Congressional District candidate Jon Hillson, also a Socialist Workers' Party member, still has a chance of attaining the November ballot as a third-party candidate. He said he will submit 8200 district voters' signatures--well over the minimum of 3400--to Massachusetts election authorities on July 29. Members of the two major parties need submit only 2000 signatures for that race...
...list of people and organizations who want to put Hillson on the ballot prove that this is not solely a Socialist cause, but an issue for anyone in this district who cares about democracy. The roster includes all of Hillson's major opponents; John Roberts, the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union's executive director; distinguished professors George Wald and Noam Chomsky; the National Organization for Women; plus a slew of local union presidents, pastors, and social-change organizations...
Many may argue that opening the electoral process to third-party candidates would benefit fringe extremists like the followers of former Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, who won places on the ballot for state offices in the Illinois primary early this spring...
Since then, Adlai Stevenson III, a bona fide Democrat who supports his party's platform--unlike the LaRoucheites--has chosen to withdraw from the ballot and attempt to run as a third-party candidate rather than carry these usurpers into office with him. The election laws are currently working against him in the same way that they confounded Berman...
Based on past experience, Hillson says he still expects to be excluded from the ballot. He compares U.S. election law unfavorably with that of Nicaragua. Even those who disagree with Hillson's politics should defend his place on the ballot, because their own civil rights will be endangered if his are denied...