No independents for you!

Cecil brought this up to me in one of those, what do you call them... conversations we have that aren't mediated by the internets.

Apparently, a recent law in Oregon bans members of (at the very least) the Democratic and Republican parties from signing a petition to place an independent candidate on the ballot. This law was apparently passed in response to the GOP trying to place Nader on the ballot in 2004 to siphon off votes from Kerry.

While my knowledge of constitutional law is marginal at best, this law sounds like a complete and utter violation of the First Amendment to me.