On January 17, the Virginia Senate Privileges & Elections Committee passed SB 1236, which lowers the number of signatures for statewide candidates in both the primary and the general election from 10,000 signatures to 5,000. The vote was 5-4, with one abstention. Thanks to Nicholas Cote for this news.

Currently the presidential petitions are 5,000, but all the other statewide candidate petitions are 10,000.