[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.

[ApplegateRanch]

Thanks for the link and info.