Green with Envy

Judge Won't Kick Green Party Candidates Off Ballot - NYTimes.com: "PHOENIX (AP) -- A federal judge has denied a request by the Arizona Green Party to kick a majority of the party's candidates off the November ballot.

U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell made the ruling late Thursday, hours after hearing arguments in the case.

The Green Party calls the disputed nominees ''sham candidates'' and says they were placed on the ballot ''to mislead voters and rig the election process.''

Greens and Democrats say Republican officials took advantage of a little-known provision in election law that applies only to the Green Party. It allows people in some cases to become a Green Party nominee with a single write-in vote."