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Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry Fail to Qualify for Virginia Primary Ballot

By SARAH MASLIN NIR
December 23, 2011, 10:05 pm

3:09 a.m. | Updated Newt Gingrich will not appear on the Virginia presidential primary ballot, state Republican Party officials announced Saturday, after he failed to submit the required number of valid signatures to qualify.

The announcement was made on the Virginia Republican Party’s Twitter account [ https://twitter.com/#!/VA_GOP/statuses/150480784145383425 ]. On Friday evening, the Republican Party of Virginia made a similar announcement for Governor Rick Perry of Texas.

Ten thousand signatures are needed to get on the ballot for the Virginia primary, which is March 6, known as Super Tuesday. The Perry campaign says it submitted 11,911 signatures, according to The Washington Post. But at 6:30 p.m. the Virginia Republican Party posted on its Twitter account [ https://twitter.com/#!/VA_GOP/status/150350871769788416 ] that after verification, it was determined that Mr. Perry did not submit the requisite amount.

Mr. Gingrich submitted 11,050 signatures, but after verification, the state party said it determined that he had not submitted enough signatures.

The deadline for signatures was 5 p.m. Thursday. Mitt Romney and Ron Paul obtained the needed signatures to qualify.

Jon M. Huntsman Jr., Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann, the other Republican candidates, did not submit signatures in Virginia and therefore did not qualify.

President Obama submitted his signatures – 15,000 – on Dec. 2. He was certified as the only candidate on the Virginia Democratic ballot on Friday night.

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