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Article: States Left to Pick Reform Ticket; For Party Nominees, Ballot Access Is Key to Federal Funds
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- The Washington Post
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- August 27, 2000
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Just two weeks after anarchy erupted at the Reform Party's
national convention, chaos now reigns in the states over the true
identity of the alternative party's presidential nominee.
Many states have yet to decide whether Patrick J. Buchanan or John
Hagelin will appear on the November ballot as the Reform candidate
after both men were nominated by competing conventions in Long Beach,
Calif.
Buchanan, a former Republican, and Hagelin, a meditating physicist
who is backed by many Reformers loyal to party founder Ross Perot,
each assert the right to $12.6 million in federal campaign funds and
each believes he should appear on state ballots as the Reform
candidate. The trouble is, many states ...