Santorum slams state ballot access rules

Rick Santorum denounced the “arcane” and “byzantine” state ballot access requirements that have prevented him from being on the ballot in key elections, as he called for Mitt Romney to support his efforts to have his name on the ballots.

“I think we should have ballot requirements [that] let the candidates on if you’re a legitimate candidate for president,” Santorum said on Fox and Friends today. “They shouldn’t have these byzantine ballot requirements that — as we saw particularly in Virginia — that keep legitimate candidates off the ballot.”