>This site lists a couple of states requirements:
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>http://www.ballot-access.org/winger/fbfp.html
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>The libertarian party has been fighting the North Carolina ballot law in court for years. So have other groups:
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>http://www.ncopenelections.org/
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>http://www.lpnc.org/news.php?news=20080528.php

So the elections are not regulated by any federal law - they really are the matter of each state. Then what business did the supreme court have to intervene in the Florida elections eight years ago? Wasn't that, then, a coup?