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In 2008, they took all candidates on 10,000 signatures and did not verify even one signature. And this is the very first time they have ever compared eligibility by verifying addresses.

Please provide the source for this assertion.

They also did a last minute change in the rules, just weeks before the petitions were due. Nobody had the ability to react in time to the new and ridiculous requirements.

The state law governing the primaries has been unchanged since 1999. Candidates need 10,000 valid signatures with 400 at least coming from each of the 11 Congressional districts. Those are the rules according to state law. If you are referring to the alleged Mullins letter that indicated if a candidate had 15,000 or more signatures with at least 600 being validated from each Congrssional District, it wasn't necessary to validate all the signatures. It remains to be seen if the certification process used this alleged certfication system.

Regardless, all a candidate needed was 10,000 valid signatures from registered voters with at least 400 coming from each CD.