Virginia Board of Elections: NO WRITE-INS!

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[Yosemitest]

Virginia Board of
Elections: No write-ins!
By Charlie Spiering Commentary Staff Writer



Republican presidential candidates former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (L) and U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)
(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Are you a Santorum or Gingrich fan?
The Virginia ballot tomorrow does not permit write-in votes for a candidate of your choice.
In fact, you will only have two choices for president tomorrow. Ron Paul or Mitt Romney.

Here is the statement from the Virginia Board of Elections:
ATTENTION: PERSONS VOTING IN THE 2012 REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY



Virginia election law (§ 24.2-529) does not permit write-in votes for primary elections.
No ballot issued during the Republican Primary on March 6, 2012 will contain an area where a write-in name may be included.
In the case of electronic voting equipment, the option for a write-in vote has been disabled.
In the case of paper ballots,

if a name is written in a blank area on a ballot,
or a name is scratched through and another is inserted,
it will not register as a vote.

In no way will defacement of an official ballot be tallied as a vote for any person other than those candidates currently listed.

The statement reminds voters that,
"10,000 Virginians who are duly registered to vote with a minimum of 400 signatures required from each of Virginia’s 11 congressional districts"
in order to be on the ballot for the Republican primary.
Only Ron Paul and Mitt Romney met the requirements for ballot access this year.

[Yosemitest]

Don't allow "Establishment Republicans" to force LOSER Romney down your throat.
If I was voting in Virginia, and I support Santorum first, and Newt second, I'd vote for Ron Paul,
and hope he gets more than 50 percent of the vote, thus shutting Romney out from getting ANY of the Virginia delegates.
And I don't even like Ron Paul, but I LOATHE Romney even more!


Like a caller to Rush said:

" We're going for the big guns.
We have a strategy, and we're gonna win.
And if we don't win, nobody else will, either, 'til we get to convention.
And then we've got the uncommitted delegates, we've got the Newt delegates, we've got conservative delegates --


RUSH: We are hearing a strategery here.

CALLER: -- and Newt's got this thing.

RUSH: All right. I like it.
I like upbeat people. She not succumbing.
I like upbeat people.
If we don't win .... nobody else will ... and we're gonna have an open convention.
Yeah, I heard that.
If we don't win, nobody else will, either.
So her claim is that
the Romney camp is not happy,
that Romney supporters are not happy,
Republicans not happy 'cause they --
I heard Romney say last night, it wasn't a big win, but it was a win, and that's all that matters.
They looked pretty happy to me last night.
I don't know that they start worrying about the margin after the victory, but we'll see.
Kate, thanks for the call. Appreciate it very much.
What's the question, Snerdley?
No, you mean after Super Tuesday? It's not gonna be over a week from today I don't think.
We're all professionals here. The professionals are saying this could go 'til May.
It could go out actually that long.
Remember, it was supposed to be over before it started.
From the establishment Republican types, it was supposed to be over before it started.

Romney? Don't be a dupe, buying the "Establishment Republicans" crap!
Yep, the "Establishment Republicans" will claim that we can NOT win without them.
Look at their track record. They chose 3 candidates and look what it brought us,

Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and The ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN CHIEF.

"Establishment Republicans" ALWAYS set us up for a loss.
Read how desperate the "Establishment Republicans" are:

All Heck Breaks Loose on Primary Day

Is the GOP Elite Ready to Concede?

Look at the "winners" the "Establishment Republicans" have picked before:

The "Establishment Republicans" rate a

[Christie at the beach]

I think this wrong.

There was a story about this showing the people in the Virginia republican state leadership are close business partners with Mitt Romney and Ann. The person is the one who set changes in which did hurt the other candidates. I will try to find the story which explains it clearly w/details.

[Advil000]

In this lone circumstance, yeah I’d say vote for Ron Paul.

It’s a vote to put the farce in public view. If he wins the Republican establishment will look like the fools they are.

[Yosemitest]

What is wrong?
You need to be specific.
I believe it's wrong to do this to voters, limit their choices.
And I suspect criminal activity, in the "signature verification".

Is This Man The Reason Newt Gingrich Isn’t On The VA Ballot?

Also read:

Second Disqualification: Newt Gingrich Fails to Make the Va. Ballot

Virginia Judge Rejects GOP Primary Ballot Appeal:
Gingrich, Santorum, Huntsman and Perry Will Not Appear

[Nextrush]

If I lived in Virginia, I would vote Paul today to send Romney and the media annointing him a message.

[Christie at the beach]

Sorry, yes, I think it is wrong for them to not allow the write ins. People should not have state obstacle in their way of voting Imo.

[Yosemitest]

Image replacement:

Michael Osborne, Is This Man The Reason Newt Gingrich Isn’t On The VA Ballot?

[pepsionice]

Having moved to Virginia two years ago....I’m laughing at the way this primary was handled by the state party. I’ll be voting like thousands of others, for Ron Paul. I suspect he just might get fifty percent in the state, because of this mess they created. I’m almost of the mind that this was intentionally done.

[olezip]

In fact, you will only have two choices for president tomorrow. Ron Paul or Mitt Romney.

We will probably stay home instead of voting today. It is going to be a very light day for voter turnout in Virginia.

If we do stop by to vote we will vote for Ron Paul, a better choice than Romney.

[butterdezillion]

The R establishment giving the lowly people a reminder that the laws are for thee and not me is nauseating.

And yes, I would vote for Ron Paul in this case also.

Obama was not the first person to force a religion to commit what they believe to be murder. Mitt Romney was. Anybody who would do that either doesn’t know the Constitution or else despises it and can’t even take the oath of office truthfully. That’s a deal-breaker.

If we choose to give ourselves the choice between crap and crap in November, we have nobody but ourselves to blame when - not if - the country goes into the crapper, never to be seen again. And that’s what this election is really about - whether this lawless nation will finish its own suicide, or whether we get some semblance of the old America back again. Both Obama and Romney are pushing the foundations for sharia - Obama deliberately and Romney unawares. It’s the same net effect. If we vote in anybody who doesn’t understand that this country stands on the edge of a precipice we’ll still end up tumbling, regardless of the person’s INTENT.

[butterdezillion]

Please don’t go the apathetically disgusted route; go the angry-and-gonna-teach-a-lesson route. The people who violated the law by requiring addresses - without telling anybody they were changing the rules in the middle of the game - is criminal, as Yosemitest suggested.

And it is a deliberate attempt to make our ONLY CHOICE the choice for somebody who would force Mother Theresa to commit what she believes to be murder. That’s Saddam Hussein level contempt for anything decent including the US Constitution - like forcing the widow of a regime-murdered man to pay for the bullet that executed him.

Right now the R establishment is no better than the dems. And if we don’t send them a lesson they will NEVER be any better than the dems.

PLEASE don’t just sit this one out, and don’t let your like-minded friends sit it out either. We need a firm, resounding HELL, NO from Virginia today.

[Yosemitest]

You should express your disgust by making sure that you and all your friends vote for Ron Paul.
I don't like Ron Paul, but I dislike Romney even more!
Stick it to the "Establishment Republicans" !!!

[silverleaf]

DITTO

[Happy Rain]

The Tea Parties of VA certainly have a lot of housecleaning to do in the commonwealth's GOP.

They disenfranchised the conservatives of Virginia so as to guarantee a Romney win.
Despicable treacherous elitist establishment RINOs should not rule the noble land of Washington and Lee.

[bgill]

Here’s to VA voting for Paul!

That’d make heads spin.

[katiedidit1]

Sad state of affairs in the Commonwealth. I noticed huge changes in the republican party there when Ollie North ran for senate. The VA GOP split. I worked for North and we carried our county but it was one hell of a battle.

Many Virginia "republican" politicians like to "take one for the team" The exception was George Allen who lost due to using the word "maccaw" and the PC police killed his campaign. The Newt people should have been able to get the petitions signed in droves. It is not that hard to do...I am sick over him not being on the ballot of my home state.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Just voted for Ron Paul. Try it ... given the alternative it’s not that hard to do.

Felt good to cast an “opposition” vote.

BTW...I doubt there will be a long line .... so go do it!! :^D

[Yosemitest]

Someone needs to post the Virginia Ballot, to see who’s running down ballot, and what other key issues are up, today.

[LibsRJerks]

I voted for Paul. And the ONLY vote I cast was for the presidential one — either Romney or Paul.

I happily voted for Paul who IS my choice between these particular two.

And I was one of TWO people in the polling room. Turnout pitiful.

[Yosemitest]

Thanks for the update.