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, 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.

On February 2, the Georgia Green and Constitution Parties filed this reply brief in Green Party of Georgia v Kemp, n.d., 1:12cv-1822. The issue is the Georgia law that requires independent presidential candidates, and newly-qualifying parties, to submit over 50,000 valid signatures to get on the ballot.