The SOS ruled today that Kinky and Carole will both be on the fall ballot. After all was said and done, Kinky ended up with 137,154 valid signatures and Carole had 108,512. Soooo, either Kinky's people spent alot more time validating their own signatures and following the rules, or the SOS wanted to put Carole at a disadvantage by validating fewer of her sigs and dampening her headlines. I'd lend credence to the former and not put the latter past the used car salesman that wants to run for a higher office in the future.
Whatever, it's all said and done now and we can move on to the real issues...like whether or not Carole will be listed as Grandma on the fall ballot. AAS story here and full statement at QR.
My guess is that Mark Littlefield was in charge of Strayhorn's signature campaign.