In Rhode Island, 2024 presidential candidates must report “at least 1,000 signatures of registered voters to their local boards of canvassers” by January 11 in order to be on the state’s primary ballot, but according to News From The States, “the urgent tone of the Rhode Island Republican Party’s Tuesday, January 9 email suggests the party is unprepared to meet the deadline. “This is not a drill,” the state’s GOP Chairman Joe Powers “wrote in the subject line” of the message, which the news outlet reports was “punctuated with bolded font, underlined phrases and capitalization aimed at conveyin…