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Gary Johnson continues to beat Republican challenges to the ballot
• Karl Dickey"Virginia is one of the toughest states in the nation in which to get on the ballot, but we knew we had met the requirements, and that the Republicans' challenge was without merit. There is, of course, some irony here, given that a couple of Republican candidates in the primary failed to meet Virginia's requirements. "The larger issue is the guerrilla ballot access war being waged nationwide by the Republican Party on behalf of Mitt Romney. They clearly do not want voters to have the option of voting for Gov. Johnson in key states, and are frantically mounting challenges wherever they can in those states, such as Michigan, Pennsylvania and Iowa. They tried in both Ohio and Virginia, and failed.