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                                [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]
                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT

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        No. 96-1958

                   DONALD GILL, JOHN CARLEVALE, SR., ROBERT PLANTE,

                               Plaintiffs, Appellants,

                                          v.

                            STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, ET AL.,

                                Defendants, Appellees.
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                                JOSEPH DEVINE, ET AL.,

                                Plaintiffs, Appellees.
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                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

                           FOR THE DISTRICT OF RHODE ISLAND

                 [Hon. Francis J. Boyle, Senior U.S. District Judge]
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                                        Before

                                Selya, Cyr and Boudin,
                                   Circuit Judges.
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            Donald Gill, John  M. Carlevale and Robert  F. Plante on brief pro
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        se.
            Jeffrey  B. Pine,  Attorney General,  Thomas A.  Palombo,  Special
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        Assistant Attorney General, Katherine  A. Merolla and Pucci, Goldin  &
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        Merolla,  Counsel to Secretary of State, on brief for appellees, State
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        of Rhode Island, Governor Lincoln Almond, James R. Langevin, Secretary
        of State, and The Members of The General Assembly.
            Robert E. Craven  and Giannini  Craven Vieira  & Digianfilippo  on
            ________________      ________________________________________
        brief for appellees, Roger  Begin, Chairman of The Rhode  Island State
        Board of Elections.
            Robert  D. Fine  and Tillinghast  Licht  &  Semonoff on  brief for
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        appellees, John Holmes, Chairman of The  Rhode Island Republican State
        Central  Committee, and  Guy  Dufault, Chairman  of  The Rhode  Island
        Democratic State Committee.
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                                   February 6, 1997
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                 Per Curiam.  Plaintiffs,  Donald Gill, John M. Carlevale
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            Sr., and  Robert F.  Plante, have appealed  a district  court

            judgment declaring  constitutional certain provisions  of the

            Rhode Island election  laws.   Gill v. Rhode  Island, 933  F.
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            Supp.  151  (D.R.I.  1996).     On  appeal,  appellants  have

            presented no cogent argument  supported by legal authority to

            challenge the court's ruling and we, therefore, have no basis

            on which to find any error.

                 Affirmed.
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