But Illinois law requires that someone objecting to a candidate's nominating papers bring both the original and two duplicates.
Officials removed Angelique Collins, 23, the daughter of State Representative Annazette R. Collins, from the ballot because she had not used her legal last name, Momon, on her nominating papers.
The Illinois board of elections confirmed to the Guardian that there were two failed attempts to challenge the nominating papers of presidential candidates on Wednesday.
A representative for Ms. Coakley, a Democrat, picked up nominating papers from the Secretary of State William F. Galvin's office, said a Coakley spokeswoman, Alex Zaroulis, who would not elaborate.
A representative for Mr. Lynch, a Democrat from South Boston who was elected in 2001, picked up nominating papers from the secretary of state's office to run in the special election, scheduled for Jan . 19
When the nominating papers for General Musharraf's re-election as president were submitted to the Election Commission of Pakistan in September, a melee broke out between police officers and angry lawyers.
As Democrats filed official nominating papers and scurried to patch together a team for the five-day campaign, Mr. Coleman, the former mayor of St . Paul flew around the state in a small plane for the second day in a row, shaking hands at restaurants, veterans' halls and hotel ballrooms in five towns, a 12-hour journey of more than 800 miles.
(a) It should be determined whether the available pool of possible signers of the nominating papers is so diminished by the disqualification of those who voted in the primary that the 5% provision, which as applied here apparently imposes a 325,000-signature requirement, to be satisfied in 24 days, is unduly onerous.
You see many of the same names on the nominating papers of all three," she said.
