On March 28, a circulator for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton pleaded guilty to forging names. The forgery was on behalf of the only two Democratic presidential candidates who successfully got on the May 2008 Indiana Democratic presidential primary. See this story. Obama and Clinton were the only Democrats who submitted a petition.

Indiana requires 4,500 signatures for a candidate to get on a presidential primary ballot. The distribution requirement is severe; 500 names are needed in each U.S. House district. Now that Virginia has eased its presidential primary ballot access laws, Indiana has the nation’s most restrictive mandatory petition requirement for presidential primaries. Thanks to PoliticalWire for the link.