A U.S. District Court in Philadelphia will hear oral arguments in Constitution Party v Cortes on Monday, October 19, at 10 a.m., in the federal courthouse at 601 Market Street. The state will try to persuade the judge to dismiss the case without any further evidence. It would be valuable if people interested in this case could attend. The lawsuit, filed by the Constitution, Green and Libertarian Parties, challenges Pennsylvania’s unique system of charging candidates and parties for the costs of checking their petitions, if they fail to have enough valid signatures. It also challenges the careless way in which some counties count write-ins and others don’t, and the abitrary manner in which the state tallies write-ins for some candidates and not others, and finally it challenges the requirement that a party have approximately 1,000,000 registered voters before it can be on the November ballot without having to petition for its nominees.