On April 24, Democratic congressional candidate Bruce Shuttleworth, who had been challenging Virginia’s ban on out-of-state circulators, altered his lawsuit. He is no longer challenging the state ban. However, he is maintaining his lawsuit against certain officials of the Democratic Party of Virginia, over the handling of his petition to get on the primary ballot this year. The case is Shuttleworth v Moran, eastern district, 3:12-cv-257.

He had originally been told he didn’t have enough valid signatures, partly because he used a resident of the District of Columbia to circulate some of his signatures. Then he filed a lawsuit, challenging that ban. Then the Democratic Party said it had found some more valid signatures, and put him on the ballot.

This is the second lawsuit in a row in which a plaintiff challenged the Virginia ban on out-of-state circulators, and then dropped the lawsuit on that point. The first was the lawsuit filed by several Republican presidential primary candidates late last year.