Posted on 12/23/2011 3:44:52 PM PST by TBBT
Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry failed to submit enough valid signatures to qualify for the Virginia primary ballot, state GOP officials said Friday evening.
Perry’s campaign told state election officials it had submitted 11,911 signatures, but a Virginia Republican familiar with the situation said that the Texas governor did not submit the required 10,000.
Earlier Friday, the Republican Party of Virginia certified former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Rep. Ron Paul (Tex.) to appear in the March ballot.
Four candidates — Romney, Perry, Paul and former House speaker Newt Gingrich — turned in thousands of signatures by the deadline. State party officials are spending the day certifying the signataries.
They have not examined Gingrich’s signatures yet, but expected to do so by late Friday night.
Candidates had until 5 p.m. to collect 10,000 signatures from across the state, including 400 from each congressional district.
Republican presidential candidates Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman and Rick Santorum did not submit signatures, according to state GOP officials
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
No reason these candidates couldn’t have gotten the signatures through volunteers in theory. Newt didn’t use volunteers either but paid contractors. Which makes you wonder how many of them were signed by “Mickey Mouse” before the contractor went home early like the signatures Acorn was buying.
It’s pretty bizarre but I guess it’s a symptom of an overall dissatisfaction with the GOP field and the fact that support is not coalescing around any one candidate.
In theory even Paul could be disqualified and Romney be the only man left standing.
They are just knocking them right out of the races. I wouldlike to know who is trying to fix our elections and if they cn be put in jail.
Stupid system. Why is the state, i.e. the taxpayers, funding and organizing internal elections of private political parties?
meticulous about voter fraud and who passed voter ID in Tx and I am to believe that suddenly he got sloppy?
From what I have read about collecting signatures for petitions and referenda, the number of invalid signatures is usually much higher than 10%. I don’t know if there is a general rule, but I suspect you need to collect 20% or more above the required number to be sure you meet the goal.
With everything that has happened this has to be the worst election cycle in the history of the U.S.
And I sure don’t expect it to get any better in 2012.
With everything that has happened this has to be the worst election cycle in the history of the U.S.
And I sure don’t expect it to get any better in 2012.
If you were native born, you would understand that we have a real distrust of smooth talkers.
Truth is...get them off TV and they have no problem expressing themselves.
Did you here Rush couple of weeks ago talking about the well known Eastern elite reporter who was invited to Dallas recently for a Bush Library occasion and came back talking about how nice and likable GWB is. This guy had covered Bush for 8 years and suddenly discovered that Bush is nice and "likable."...and can talk.
I don’t believe the signatures have to be registered voters. They only have to be old enough to vote. You can register later.
The person collecting signatures has to be a registered voter.
I can’t verify this because the RPV website is down.
Damn! and lost out on a what I thought was a sweet deal on a gun today too!
“But those 11,050 are going to be matched against the the registered voter rolls and many are likely to be thrown out.”
Well, it was unlikely VA was going to be a bastion of Perry voters anyway.
I still say this all smells fishy.
Time to bring in lawyers, guns, and money....
50%
Which, in Loving County, Texas, would amount to a grand total of...3.
I don’t know. I was easily able to collect 15 signatures for each candidate I tried in 2008. If 100 people did that, we’d cover a district.
No candidate took me up on the offer this time, or told me how to sign their petitions. It’s like they didn’t care.
On the other hand, I read a blog that says professionals turn down petition contracts in Virginia because it’s too hard. I don’t see why.
If I find out the missing signatures were from my district, I’ll be pissed. I could have taken petitions for each of these candidates and sat at the election polling place for an hour and collected 100 signatures for each. In a day we’d ahve collected 400. But the only candidate collecting at the polls was Herman Cain.
How about this for a headline?
"Bachmann, Huntsman and Santorum don't have a friggin clue and disqualify themselves from the Virginia ballot"
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