The Tampa Bay Times has this interesting PolitiFact analysis of Stephen Nodine’s chances of getting on the Republican primary ballot, in the upcoming special election to fill the vacant U.S. House seat in Alabama’s First District. Nodine is a Republican who has been elected to city and county office in Mobile County. He is serving a two-year term in prison, and he wants to run in the special election as a Republican. The party’s state chair says Nodine can’t meet the party’s qualifications.