[ApplegateRanch]

Since you are in Virginia, I'll ask:

I've seen a couple of articles (bloggers) posted that say Romney & Paul made the ballot because they were grandfathered in from 2008; not because they had collected signatures.

However, none of the wire service stories I've seen posted have mentioned anything about that, but implied ALL the candidates had submitted petitions.

Would you please clarify which version is correct?

Thanks

[mrsmith]

Here’s a statement by the RPV that clears up most of the mis-information floating around:
http://www.rpv.org/node/1037

No one was ‘grandfathered’ in. These petitions were dated- all new.
Romney had 15,000 raw siganatures so his weren’t verified, Paul only had 14,000- and some- so they were verified.

Romney and Paul had organizations already in Va from past runs so that helped them.