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.
Hell, it’s hard enough in some districts/precincts to get volunteers to hand out sample ballots, much less request signatures! But I agree they SHOULD have thought ahead and had tables set up where that was possible.
The various county committees could also have had petitions available at monthly meetings for ALL the candidates. But during ‘collection season’ they were focused on the upcoming state elections. Hopefully, they’re better prepared in the future.
I have a few ‘issues’ with electoral politics in VA. 1. no registration by party, we we can’t even really ID our own people; 2. having elections every single year wears volunteers down real fast; 3. at least MY County Committee’s members’ average age is @ 65. I think they keep going to the meetings to see old friends, but God forbid they do lit drops, signature gathering, etc. We need some new, young blood!