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SACRAMENTO, Calif.--Less than a week before the deadline, Ross Perot's new party has registered just 10,217 of the 89,007 voters it needs to win a spot on California's 1996 presidential ballot, state officials said yesterday...
Secretary of State Bill Jones said it was too early to say whether Perot's Reform Party would make the ballot. He noted that its registration figure had jumped from just 448 a week ago and that there were "a substantial number of voter registration cards in the pipeline awaiting processing...
...Ross Perot's new political party has less than a week to gain about 78,000 members if it wants to field candidatesm in its flagship state, California. So far, state officials said today, the Reform Party has registered just 10,217 of the 89,007 voters it needs to win a place on California's 1996 presidential ballot. But Perot's United We Stand America disputes the figure. "We are now over 50,000, and we are surging ahead rapidly," executive director Russ Verney told the Associated Press. "Fifty thousand is a hard and fast figure. We photocopied those...
...ROSS PEROT United They Stumble. His new third party misses its first petition deadline in California...
...preseason winds of the 1996 presidential contest shifted again. Ross Perot announced the formation of a new, independent third party, whose mission will be to field an "outstanding" public figure for the Oval Office unaligned with either major party. Ross Perot, perhaps? Or Colin Powell? Neither man would say anything definite. Few Republicans or Democrats would say much for the record either. But pundits, on and off campaign payrolls, speculated that if the considerable financial and registration obstacles facing a third party can be overcome, another Perot run could hurt the G.O.P.'s presidential ticket more than Clinton...