Someone correct me if I’m wrong but was this not the reason Newt, Perry and I think one or 2 others did not make it onto the VA primaries because they had used out of state volunteers?
You could theoretically find your nominating petitions rejected if you used out of state collectors.
The real deal though was the cut off set by the state committee for when a pile of nominating petitions was sufficient that it didn't need to be reviewed for accuracy or completeness.
Traditionally the state party had done the reviews at a relatively low cut off level ~ 10,000 or so. This year just three days before the deadline to hand them in they set it at 15,000 ~ and only one candidate had that many. That meant the others would be reviewed.
Newt and Perry had claimed more than 10,000, as had Paul. The reviewers rejected some of Newt's ~ something like 1500 or so ~ on the grounds they were fraudulent or fraudulently obtained by a commercial campaign nominating petition signature collector. Perry actually came up with less than 10,000 ~ although under prior rules his simple claim of exceeding 10,000 would have gotten him past any review. Paul's folks had over 10,000 and passed the review.
So, as soon as that was all done ~ skullduggery and all ~ one of the older volunteer petition reviewers and his wife who live in a rural area in Central Virginia appeared to have run off the road and hit a tree not far from their home. He died. Haven't heard about her condition for some time.
So, a KOINKYDINK? I didn't think so at the time and I still don't.