[trumandogz]

“You’d rather just Romney and Paul be on the ballot just because VA decided to change the rules after the process was already underway?”

I would rather had each candidate follow the Virginia rules when gathering signatures for petitions.

And I would like someone to tell me how exactly those rules were different for Rick Perry and how Romney and Paul were treated more favorably by the Republican Party of Virginia.

[Quicksilver]

Romney and Paul’s signatures were deemed to meet the required 10,000/400 signatures.

[Allegra]

And I would like someone to tell me how exactly those rules were different for Rick Perry and how Romney and Paul were treated more favorably by the Republican Party of Virginia.

This motion is likely to answer that.

It's a perfectly legal process, so there should be no problem with letting it go through.

Unless you're based, or something.

But that couldn't be the case, now could it?

[BuckeyeTexan]

How were Romney and Paul treated more favorably by the VA GOP?

1. Romney and Paul submitted enough signatures over 10k that the VA GOP let their petitions through without verifying any signatures.

2. Perry and Gingrich submitted well over the required 10k but less than 15k. So the VA GOP decided to verify every single signature - something they apparently have never done before - by comparing the addresses on the petitions to those in the electronic voter registration database.