11.   Mell, he explains, challenged his signature on the nominating petition he signed for Kaszak.

12.   Ms. Messinger sought to brush aside the criticism at an appearance in Battery Park, where she announced the filing of her nominating petitions.

13.   More than a million nominating petitions are being mailed to members this week.

14.   The legislation would eliminate numerous technical requirements that often turned the collection of signatures on nominating petitions into a painstaking and expensive process.

15.   They talk to each other, can provide the troops to carry nominating petitions and tap each other for campaign contributions.

16.   Under current law, Republican candidates must collect thousands of signatures on nominating petitions, a prescribed number in each congressional district, to get on the ballot.

17.   The senator has endorsed Dole and instructed GOP officials to gather signatures on nominating petitions for no one else.