OPINION OF THE COURT
MUIR, District Judge.
The question in this case is whether the Pennsylvania Election Code violates the federal constitution. We conclude that it does.
The specific portions of the code which are attacked are those which require political bodies to secure a substantial number of signatures to nominating papers during a three-week period in the winter in order to have the names of their candidates appear on the fall ballot. A political...
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