From Boston.com:

When the deadline for certification passed yesterday, Jim Ogonowski, the Republican leadership's choice to challenge US Senator John F. Kerry, was 82 signatures short of qualifying for the GOP primary ballot, according to the state's central voter registry.

But Ogonowski's campaign aides contend there are enough certified signatures at various town offices around the state not filed yet on the computerized registry to put him across the 10,000 threshold.

NRSC Chair John Ensign, undoubtedly already suffering from a lot of heartburn this election season, has said of Ogonowski, “we really think that he can be a very serious candidate.”

To quote Inigo from The Priness Bride, "You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means."