No Ballots Until Perry Hearing
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January 12th, 2012
Virginia: United States District Judge John A. Gibney Jr. has ordered the Virginia State Board of Elections to send instructions to each of the local boards in the state, ordering them to not print any absentee ballots until an issue has been ruled on Texas Governor Rick Perry's challenge to the ballot on January 13th, 2012.[1]
Absentee ballots must be printed and then mailed out before January 21st, 2012 to insure that they are received overseas on time before the Virginia primary on March 6th, 2012.[1]
Grand Old Party candidates Mitt Romney and Ron Paul have qualified for the Virginia primary. Virginia has some of the hardest ballot requirements in the United States, requiring candidates to obtain 10,000 signatures, this breaking down to 400 signatures from each of the 11 counties in Virginia.[1]
Rick Perry's campaign has chosen to challenge the signature requirement and is pushing for those people who are gathering signatures to be either a registered or eligible Virginia voter. The three other candidates taking part in this suit are candidates Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman and Rick Santorum. Michele Bachmann joined the suit, but has dropped out of the race.[1]
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