A new Marion County recount shows that Rick Santorum did submit enough petition signatures to qualify for Indiania’s May 8th Republican presidential primary. The Indianapolis Star reports:
The original tally showed he fell eight signatures short in the 7th Congressional District, which is entirely in Marion County. Candidates must collect the signatures of 500 registered voters in each of the nine congressional districts to be on the ballot.
The Santorum campaign also failed to identify full slates of delegates in Ohio, Tenneesse, and Illinois. However, those oversights will not impede Santorum’s ability to win delegates in those states.
Santorum still is not on the Virgina or Washington DC Republican primary ballots, failures that cost him a chance at 65 delegates. 1,144 delegates are needed for the nomination.
