[NOT FOR PUBLICATION]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
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        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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