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Nader off Ore. ballot, on in N.M., Maine

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Ralph Nader cannot be included as a candidate on Oregon’s November ballot, dealing a blow to the one-time consumer advocate’s independent bid for the presidency.

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Ralph Nader cannot be included as a candidate on Oregon’s November ballot, dealing a blow to the one-time consumer advocate’s independent bid for the presidency.

However, New Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Nader will be on ballot in that state, overturning a ruling that he did not qualify to run as an independent in New Mexico. In Maine, a state judge also ruled Tuesday that Nader could remain on the ballot there.

Nader’s decision to run in the presidential race against Republican President Bush and Democratic Sen John Kerry has been opposed by many Democrats, who say Nader cost former Vice President Al Gore the White House in the close 2000 election.


In the Oregon case, only one of the Supreme Court’s members, Justice Stephen Breyer, said he would grant the request for a stay of last week’s Oregon Supreme Court ruling that removed Nader’s name from the ballot.

Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers opposed the request by Nader’s supporters and told the Supreme Court that Oregon counties already had already begun printing ballots without Nader’s name.

Oregon is considered a key battleground state in the Nov. 2 election. Gore carried the state by a slim margin in 2000. Polls show the presidential race in New Mexico is also extremely close. Bush won that state in the last election by a just a few hundred votes.