Rhode Island requires 1,000 signatures for candidates to get on a presidential primary ballot. The deadline for turning the signatures into the towns is December 26 at 4 p.m.

So far, these 9 Republican candidates have submitted signatures to Providence city elections officials: Hugh Cort, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Duncan Hunter, Alan Keyes, John McCain, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson.

These 5 Democrats have submitted signatures to Providence: Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, John Edwards, Dennis Kucinich, Barack Obama. Since this post is being written 2 hours and 30 minutes before the deadline, it is not possible to know if Joe Biden and Bill Richardson will also file. UPDATE: Biden and Richardson also turned in signatures before the deadline.

Republicans running in the District of Columbia presidential primary needed 298 signatures of registered Republicans. Although Fred Thompson’s campaign took out petition blanks, his campaign didn’t turn in any signatures. The D.C. Board of Elections does not check the validity of these signatures, so he would have been on the ballot if he had turned in a petition that had at least 298 names on it.

Although access to the Arizona presidential primaries is extremely easy, Joe Biden didn’t file to run in the Arizona Democratic presidential primary. All he would have needed to do is file a declaration of candiday. No fee and no petition is required.