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Updated: 9:09 AM Jan 18, 2012
Appeals Court Refuses to Add Perry to Virginia Ballot
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) A federal appeals court has rejected Texas Gov. Rick Perry's bid to be placed on Virginia's Republican presidential primary ballot.
Posted: 4:21 PM Jan 17, 2012Email Address: news@newsplex.com |
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January 17, 2012
A federal appeals court has rejected Texas Gov. Rick Perry's bid to be placed on Virginia's Republican presidential primary ballot.
A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with a lower court that Perry and three other candidates waited too late to challenge Virginia's ballot access law.
Perry sued last month after failing to submit the 10,000 voter signatures required to get on the March 6 ballot. Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Jon Huntsman also failed to qualify and joined the lawsuit. Only former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Congressman Ron Paul qualified.
A federal judge said Friday that one key provision of Virginia's ballot access law is probably unconstitutional, but Perry waited too late to challenge it.
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You are right. It is Rick. We took that story directly from the Associated Press, but should have proofread their content more closely.
Umm...to newsplex...isn't it Rick Santorum?
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