PORTLAND, Ore. -- Consumer activist Ralph Nader will be on the Oregon presidential ballot in November by becoming the nominee of a new party.

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Ralph Nader

Since May, Nader loyalists have been quietly collecting signatures in hopes of forming a Peace Party.

Backers told state elections officials that they have the signatures and that Nader will be their candidate.

Secretary of State Bill Bradbury's spokesman, Don Hamilton, said elections officials will review the nomination but "things look to be in order."

Political parties have until Tuesday to inform elections officials about their slate of candidates and get them listed on the statewide ballot.

Nader drew 10,000 people to a rally in Portland in 2000 and won 5 percent of the state's presidential vote that year, about 77,000 total votes. George Bush lost the state and its seven electoral votes by about 7,000 votes to Sen. Al Gore.