the disparity and if there are any state interests it anderson there was a line readers would use no justification for the spirit here where they're saying the defendant they saw there was this you get twice the number of signatures for statewide office they could yes how would that help your client in the well if they raise it to ten thousand in the future to get ten thousand then you have to get ten thousand of that point but at this point introduced evidence to that effect about it burden there wasn't a separate explanation for why one sick sure requirement is higher than the other because we just never really reached that point because that disparity was really being used to try and justify or a higher standard of scrutiny burden you don't have to look into a reason for that spirit you just look into a reason for the requirement itself and so there was never really an inquiry into the disparity but even though the disparity may at first blush seem a bit odd i don't think it's at all irrational because what it does is it balances the state's interest in preventing ballot clutter will also not give me an undue advantage to candidates from densely populated areas and i can explain a little more how that works just a single unit like the state and whether you go through a percentage or just a flat number either way the same numbers were applied to everybody and so by studying a five thousand signature limit that's actually quite a bit higher than the county wide signature limit that a candidate from a rural part of the state or a sparsely densely populated part of the state would have to meet so it kind of balances those two interests it's still high enough that it prevents ballot clutter but it's not so hot that a places an additional burden on candidates who are trying to run from areas where it's harder to gather signatures because there's less people around and it therefore takes more resources in order to get those signatures thousand for cook county you would essentially have i think as zero point three percent requirement from county and then you would probably have claimed saying that that creates a constitutional problem because candidates and cook are the county have an easier time getting on the ballot  a particular office if you want to run you can go on the website or i think the state board of elections website has that i think the county board has it as well in this case i don't think there was as i understand  any confusion about what the actual use was going to be i was looking and i'm not right i was having a little trouble but you know and they do i mean at one point you know they do put out like a separate sheet or flyer that has every all felt where we didn't next to it the number county by county yes you've got to do separate calculations for every county right right in every district so can i also just ask one thing that seems very odd about the way the statute is written it's based upon the number of voters in that party have the lower requirements and then when you're going in an off year you refer back to the presidential race a higher turnout in the number of jumps up by maybe a third right well i don't think it would jump up that much so for example i did a quick calculation point five percent requirement at least equalize the burden across all the different geographic areas and while the number may go up or down somewhat it's not going to be necessarily a drastic change and what the parties they upheld the five percent requirement for libertarian congressional candidates which is the same five percent requirement that if applied to county at large you are in and so it was found to be unacceptable because