Gingrich Considers Joining Perry in Challenging VA Election Rule

News Max ^ | December 30, 2011 | Paul Scicchitano

[trumandogz]

“Political parties are acting under the color of law. Laws of the state govern how political primaries are conducted. And these political parties should hold themselves to the full standards of the constitution, and run their primaries fairly. Clearly, Virginia is not doing that.”

This has nothing to do with the “color of the law” as political parties are not government officials.

And we know that political parties do not “hold themselves to the full standards of the constitution,” as many state parties have closed primaries and restrict who can and cannot vote in their primary for a federal election.

[Keith in Iowa]

So it’s OK for Virginia to change the rules in the middle of the game in your world... how nice.

[mrsmith]

Ken Cuccinelli’s office is in court defending the LAWS Perry is challenging.

Perry isn’t challenging any “rules”.

[mrsmith]

Paul did not get 15,000 signatures so his were checked.

The RPV said they spent seven hours validating his petitions.

[trumandogz]

What rule was changed?

[DoughtyOne]

In the end, I do want this to have been a fair procedure. If it is proven that things are like what you and one other person have related here, then it needs to be set straight.

I’m not in favor of some of the campaigns being gamed here.

[mrsmith]

The problem with that argument is that the law nonetheless requires 10,000 signatures from valid voters.
It’s the Party’s job to verify the petitions and certify to the state that the candidates got them.

If the VaGOP didn’t validate the signatures in 2008 (and in effect lied) it’s demeaning to say “Hey, they used to let us cheat so we demand they let us cheat again!”

The Oct. notification was late, but I don’t think Perry and Gingrich were planning on evading the law anyway.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for the comments MrSmith. I agree with your take on it.