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.
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.
I suspect it has to do with the 400 signatures in each district rule, but none of the articles specify.
They just shout, “Perry Disqualified!”