And now your neighbors all know!
Posted on 01/31/2016 3:27:08 PM PST by dontreadthis
The party's governing body has voted by acclamation to no longer require a Statement of Affiliation to vote in the March 1 GOP presidential primary
The Republican Party of Virginia’s State Central Committee (“SCCâ€), meeting in Richmond, today voted to remove the requirement it had adopted in September 2015 to require voters in its March 1 presidential primary to sign a statement indicating they are Republican. The move comes after outcry from various quarters of the party, notably from Donald Trump, who excoriated the party for what he alleged was a move designed to exclude voters sympathetic to his candidacy. However, this does not seem to have made any impact of the SCC’s decision. The SCC’s vote in September was to adopt a specific, GOP-branded form that included the term “Property of the Republican Party of Virginia.†The intention was for the forms to then be collected and returned to the party. However, what the Democrat-controlled State Board of Elections adopted was a form generated by Department of Elections staff keeping only 9 of the original 47 words adopted by the SCC, and replacing GOP branding with intimidating state board legalese. Further, the Attorney General issued guidance that those people refusing to sign must be offered a provisional ballot instead, under the federal Help America Vote Act. However, even though tens of thousands of people might cast provisional ballots in this scenario, the code of Virginia (24.2-545) requires that voters must meet the requirements set forth by the party for participation in the party’s presidential primary. In other words, every local electoral board would be bound by law to NOT COUNT those provisional ballots. One need not be a political guru to imagine what the headlines around the state and across the nation would be the day after the March 1 primary when tens of thousands of GOP primary voters had their votes cast aside. And, one does not have to be a lawyer to imagine what a candidate who felt injured by this would seek as a remedy. Recognizing this, the SCC adopted a motion from First District GOP Chairman Eric Herr, and seconded by Fourth District GOP Chairman Jack Wilson, to rescind the requirement. The motion made clear that it was motivated not by any disagreement about the party’s right of free association, but by recognition that the McAuliffe administration and Attorney General Mark Herring had made exercise of that First Amendment right nearly impossible. The motion was adopted by acclamation, meaning there were no dissenting votes.
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Trump wins again.
As well they should have, the document was worthless.
Maybe, maybe not. Virginia GOP is a closed party. State-level candidates are selected by a convention; which only a fraction of the party members attend.
It is the very essence of Establishment and Trump and Cruz are crashing their party.
We shall see.
So Dems get to help pick our nominee? One of the few things ee do right in Pennsylvania is having closed primaries.
Both national major parties are trying to control politics at all levels through their elites and their big donors. They are ignoring the voters and believe in the near future, the voters will be irrelevant. This is why both parties are collapsing, at least at the federal level and before long at all levels.
Look where we are for this year’s Presidential election.
The Democrat has another criminal in Hillary who cares for nothing except herself. The other candidate is not even a Democrat, but a diehard Communist who will seal their overturn of what was the Democrat Party.
The Republican have Donald Trump who is saying the right things, but has never shown any of those things in words and deeds for the past 30 Years. No one would have called him a conservative 5 years ago. Ted Cruz is the real deal, a true conservative but he will probably destroy the Republican Party, probably the best possible outcome of this election.
Trump effect for sure. Stuffing your tail up your ash isn’t fun is it morons?
In 2014, Cantor’s allies didn’t help the situation when they “slated” key GOP leaders from his district (replacing them with Cantor cronies). The backlash was harsh.
Well, he’s right and it’s a dang shame that Virginia backed off.
The primary is for the party to select it’s candidate, not for the other party to select one for them.
Well, he’s right and it’s a dang shame that Virginia backed off.
The primary is for the party to select it’s candidate, not for the other party to select one for them.
Easy solution here. Close the primary. But the GOPe doesn’t want to do that. I don’t hear Trump objecting to Florida’s closed primary system.
And now your neighbors all know!
LOL!
Bearing Drift will be praising the Party masters for dropping this, as they praised the Party masters for instigating it.
I’m against open primaries for Republicans, for them for Democrats.
:)
“So Dems get to help pick our nominee?”
It worked well for the GOPe in Mississippi. Expect to see it repeated again through out the primaries.
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