On August 24, a Commonwealth Court judge in Pennsylvania ruled that the legal required number of signatures this year for statewide minor party and independent candidates is 67,070 signatures, not 15,494. In re Nomination Paper of Romanelli, 426 M.D. 2006. That case will now be appealed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. It had been brought by the Green Party’s candidate for U.S. Senate. It had argued that the number of signatures should be based on the November 2005 statewide judicial retention election, not the November 2004 election.