HARRISBURG - Third party political candidates are complaining Pennsylvania law is making it almost impossible for them to get their names on ballots.
Especially this year, when third party candidates running for statewide offices need 34 times as many signatures as Democrats and Republicans to get on the November ballot.
"Bob Casey Jr. didn't defeat me. Rick Santorum didn't defeat me. The law defeated me," said Ken Krawchuk, a Libertarian Party member from Abington who said he's dropped out of the U.S. Senate race this year because of burdensome signature requirements.
Krawchuk and other third party candidates - including three would-be candidates for governor this year - spoke to the House State Government Committee Wednesday in the hopes of changing state law.
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