On March 6, the Arizona deadline, the Arizona Green Party submitted 29,300 signatures on its petition for party recognition. The legal requirement is 20,449. Even if only 70% of the signatures are valid, the party has enough to qualify.

Arizona elections officials traditionally do a high-quality job of checking signatures, unlike certain other states that do sloppy work, or disqualify signatures for trivial reasons like a missing middle initial or a somewhat imprecise address.

Richard Scott, speaking for the Arizona Green Party, said, “If it weren’t for the help of Greens all over the nation, the drive could not have been completed.”

ABC News announced that Ron Paul is suspending his presidential campaign.

He issued a video to his supporters.

Several days ago, Matt Gonzalez (Ralph Nader’s running mate this year) said he was switching his registration from “Green” to “independent” to avoid ballot access problems in Idaho, Oregon and Delaware. It turns out that Idaho would not have disqualified Gonzalez from appearing on the general election ballot as an independent, on the basis that he is a registered Green. Gonzalez had received misinformation about Idaho.