Perot Still 79,000 Signatures Away

With less than a week to go until 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 Wednesday.

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.”