11.   One fringe candidate was recognized as a fugitive from a court warrant by a police officer watching television, who then moved in for an arrest.

12.   Other states have fringe candidates, too.

13.   Overcome this by challenging McCain to one-on-one debates now, without the buffering of fringe candidates.

14.   Redmond estimated that several thousand voters who had planned to stay home or vote for one of the fringe candidates, will write in Ammiano as their choice.

15.   Speaker Thomas Finneran, for one, has been skeptical that easy-access public money might encourage a number of disruptive fringe candidates.

16.   The ballot also includes a Democratic ticket, but lists only perennial fringe candidate Lyndon LaRouche.

17.   The only fringe candidate to make a case for himself on Thursday was Stankowski.

18.   The prospect was that as a Republican, Smith might get very few votes, possible even fewer than some of the fringe candidates.

19.   The Supreme Court this week reinforced that ruling by upholding the right of public television stations to exclude fringe candidates from presidential debates.

20.   Three fringe candidates shared the rest of the vote.