The South Carolina Election Commission still hasn’t finished checking the Labor Party’s petition, but should be done the first week in September. The party needed 10,000 and submitted 16,000 several months ago. The Labor Party is organized nationally, but had never tried to qualify for the ballot in any state, until it decided to qualify in South Carolina. If the petition is approved, the party will be entitled to nominate candidates in 2007 and 2008, but not 2006, since the petition was submitted beyond this year’s May 7 deadline.