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 ...
“But those 11,050 are going to be matched against the the registered voter rolls and many are likely to be thrown out.”
Unfortunately, I think Newt might miss the mark as well. I dunno if any news of him being on the ballot as well.
Not really. In VA, ya gotta have at least 400 from each of the state's 11 congressional districts.
Just being short in one district is enough to cancel the effort.
VA has one of the strictest requirements.
From the link the article in #162 that you say doesn’t mention Perry. I didn’t post the entire article only the portion about registred voters that was being discussed.
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(CNN) - Texas Gov. Rick Perry will not appear on the Virginia primary ballot after submitting a petition that didn’t meet the commonwealth’s requirements, the Virginia Republican Party announced Friday.
In an announcement on their Twitter feed, the Virginia GOP wrote, “After verification, RPV has determined that Rick Perry did not submit the required 10k signatures and has not qualified for the VA primary.”
Perry was one of four candidates who submitted ballot petitions Thursday to the Virginia State Board of Elections. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Texas Rep. Ron Paul and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich also submitted petitions.
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Newt did get on the Ohio ballot along with Perry and Romney. The others did not, but the deadline was already being extended to March so they have more time.
You are correct that Newt's lack of money and failure to have a good ground game could be his undoing. He almost missed getting on the ballot in Ohio. Newt has never run for statewide office let alone national office. I suspect that he never expected to be the frontrunner. Being good in debates doesn't translate into being able to assemble the team to run a first class campaign.
You do realize that the entire reason one hires a campaign staff, complete with a legal army that's responsible to know, understand, and comply with each state's election laws is to get on each state's ballot, correct?
It's one thing for Perry to think about ONE state's ballot access laws in Texas, he has 49 others now to deal with. That's the point of hiring a legal and campaign staff skilled in managing those ballot access issues successfully.
The fact that his campaign staff hasn't managed getting on the Virginia ballot well at all should be sending a signal to Perry that he needs to shake up his campaign staff (fire those responsible or this fiasco) and fix his campaign in a hurry if he wants to be taken seriously. The level of flat out incompetence displayed by whoever's managing Perry's campaign is simply stunning to me.
Yes, quite possible. We will know soon.
I hope the Virginia voters can figure out how to spell “Newt.”
As I understood the procedure, any candidate submitting 15K+ signatures wouldn’t have his/her petitions examined under the presumption that that many would not be invalid. This guy says 14K.
The two who submitted >15K have both already run for POTUS, so are more familiar with the rules and procedures, That doesn’t explain away the on-the-ground folks working on this for Perry who seem to have failed him. And for all we know the same situation abides with Gingrich.
Get over your ‘legal challenge’ ... it ain’t gonna happen. The RPV makes the rules for candidates choosing to run on its primary ballot. Those rules are fairly straightforward: 10K signatures, with a minimum of 400 from each Congressional District. They will have given Perry and Gingrich every opportunity to qualify.
You and the Perry (and possibly Gingrich) people can hope that there is an error in the rolls, and that’s about the only thing left to challenge.
In the meanwhile, VA voters are stuck if the only ones who qualify are Romney and Paul. Major write-in drives will ensure.
We do most of our voting electronically.
Newt also missed the ballot in Missouri.
The article says Perry’s team submitted 11,911 signatures. To be under 10K, it’s more than 200 that are disqualified. A minimum of 1,912.
RPV threw a MAJOR luncheon for Perry not long ago. Hard to imagine they couldn’t have gotten 10K legitimate signatures out of the luncheon alone. It had huge attendance, and if each paying guest signed up another person that should have made it. I have NO idea what went wrong here.
http://twitter.com/VA_GOP
http://www.rpv.org/ (down now)
Romney has been running for 5 years. He would be mega pathetic if he hadn’t managed to get organized. LOL.
Nobody collected signatures at the luncheon. And no candidate except Cain sent petitions to be signed to the precincts on our election day.
We had a GENERAL ELECTION in November, during collection season. We had hundreds of thousands of republicans show up to vote.
If you just had a table at the precincts with the petitions on it, you’d have easily gotten your signatures. You wouldn’t even have to worry that the signatures weren’t in the right districts, because a precinct would be in a district.
That was one of the big worries. You need a petition for each congressional district. The congressional districts changed this year. YOu might get some signatures that are valid, but in the WRONG congressional district. They are thrown out — you don’t get to count them for the right district.
Now however, if that was the only problem, I would expect a challenge could be mounted. But I’m guessing that’s not the problem.
Were the standards for Rick Perry higher than the standards set for other candidates?
BUT OBAMA IS OKAY???!
What an outrage!
and I am no Perry fan btw
http://nbc12.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/perry-falls-far-short-of-making-virginia-primary-ballot/
“...A GOP activist who witnessed the count said that it became very clear that the Perry campaign, which reported to the Virginia Board of elections that it had gathered 11,911 signatures, did not come anywhere near that number. This source said Perry’s campaign may have submitted somewhere between 4-6 thousand qualified signatures.
Perry’s State Chair, former Attorney General Jerry Kilgore confirmed that his candidate did not make the ballot.
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