EVERYONE knew how to get Virginia signatures last time due to different rules, that is NO ONE checked addresses.
This time, if you had moved between elections, your name was thrown out.
That’s fair. Not.
Ron Paul had his signatures validated line by line, and seems to have managed to get 10,000 with valid addresses.
The pages we used in 2008 clearly stated that addresses were required.
I have exchanged e-mails with the former RPV chair, and am assured that during HIS term, they checked the forms carefully (that would be the 2009 statewide primaries), including checking for valid addresses. He can’t say what they did in 2008 because he wasn’t there in 2008.
SO while I can’t say what they did in 2008, I can say that this isn’t the first time RPV checked the addresses, they did it in 2009. Another myth busted.