Virginia requires 5,000 signatures for presidential primary candidates to get on a ballot. December 13 was the deadline. Fourteen candidates submitted petitions: Michael Bennet, Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Julian Castro, Tulsi Gabbard, Amy Klobuchar, Deval Patrick, Bernie Sanders, Tom Steyer, Elizabeth Warren, Marianne Williamson, and Andrew Yang. Originally Castro was left off the list, but now he is on the list.

There is no Virginia Republican presidential primary.

On December 13, Massachusetts Secretary of state William Galvin said that he will put William Weld and Joe Walsh on the Republican presidential primary ballot automatically, because they are discussed in news media. But he said he won’t put Rocky De La Fuente on because he isn’t discussed in the news media. De La Fuente can still get on the ballot with 2,500 signatures of registered Republicans and/or registered independents. See this story.

Wisconsin State Senator Mark Miller (D-Monona) and Representative Mark Spreitzer (D-Beloit) are about to introduce a bill to use ranked choice voting for federal, state, and local office in the state, excluding recall elections. The bills don’t have numbers yet, but here is the text. They apply to president.