The March 6 Republican Puerto Rico presidential primary ballot has pictures of all the candidates. Thanks to Juan Jose Nolla for this sample ballot. Democrats don’t have a presidential primary in Puerto Rico this year.
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On February, the U.S. District Court that is handling the Utah Republican Party’s lawsuit over nomination methods allowed the Democratic Party of Utah to intervene in the case. The Republican Party had opposed that intervention. See this story.
It is likely that the Maryland Democratic presidential primary ballot will have four candidates, and the Republican ballot will have twelve. The Democrats will be: Hillary Clinton, Martin O’Malley, Bernie Sanders, and Rocky De La Fuente. The first three were put on last month because they are discussed in the news media, and De La Fuente got on by submitting 3,200 signatures of registered Democrats.
The Republicans will be: Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckabee, John Kasich, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Rick Santorum, Donald Trump, and Robert H. Heller, Jr., of Maryland. The first eleven were put on automatically last month because they are discussed in the media. Heller submitted petitions. Heller has not qualified for any presidential primary in any other state this year, so far at least.
It is not certain that the De La Fuente and Heller petitions will be valid, because they haven’t been checked yet. The signatures were due February 3.
On February 3, Bernie Sanders filed approximately 80,000 signatures to be on the New York Democratic presidential primary ballot. The requirement is 5,000 signatures. Hillary Clinton had filed 70,000 the day before.
On February 3, it became known that Rick Santorum is about to drop out of the Republican presidential race. See this story. Santorum had qualified for the Republican presidential primary in every state in which the deadline has passed. That is also true of Rand Paul, who also dropped out on February 3.