Tuesday,September 28,2004 Judge rules to keep Nader on ballot AUGUSTA (AP) - Maine Democrats have lost a bid to keep independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader's name off the November ballot. A Maine Superior Court judge ruled that state election officials followed legal procedure in allowing the consumer activist's name to go on the ballot. In his ruling, Justice S. Kirk Studstrup rejected a challenge by Maine Democratic Party Chairwoman Dorothy Melanson, who said petitions included the wrong name for a Nader elector and party identification forms weren't on the petitions. Studstrup said state election officials followed proper procedure and did...