On December 19, the Constitution, Green and Libertarian Parties filed this reply brief in the Third Circuit. The issue is the constitutionality of a U.S. District Court order that requires their statewide petitions for state office to include a certain number of signatures from each of ten counties. The number is either 100 or 200, depending on which office.

The United States Supreme Court invalidated county distribution requirements for statewide petitions in 1969 in Moore v Ogilvie, and the Pennsylvania county distribution requirement is now the only county distribution requirement for a general election minor party or independent candidate, anywhere in the nation.