freemont steve, the information quoted from that site is NOT from the Code of Virginia. The Code of Virginia requires 10K/400, not 15K/600, signatures of registered VA voters.
JV, the Code of VA most definitely does set the requirements to get on the primary ballot. It’s not a party rule that can be changed at will.
The 15K/600 number is what the RPV determined was an adequate number to be safe from elimination below the mandatory 10K, thus they bypassed the review of those petitions containing more than 15K signatures.
THIS is from the Code of VA and can be verified at:
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?000+cod+24.2-545
§ 24.2-545. Presidential primary.
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B. Any person seeking the nomination of the national political party for the office of President of the United States, or any group organized in this Commonwealth on behalf of, and with the consent of such person, may file with the State Board petitions signed by at least 10,000 qualified voters, including at least 400 qualified voters from each congressional district in the Commonwealth, who attest that they intend to participate in the primary of the same political party as the candidate for whom the petitions are filed. Such petitions shall be filed with the State Board by the primary filing deadline. The petitions shall be on a form prescribed by the State Board and shall be sealed in one or more containers to which is attached a written statement giving the name of the presidential candidate and the number of signatures on the petitions contained in the containers. Such person or group shall also attach a list of the names of persons who would be elected delegates and alternate delegates to the political party’s national convention if the person wins the primary and the party has determined that its delegates will be selected pursuant to the primary. The slate of delegates and alternates shall comply with the rules of the national and state party.
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http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?000+cod+24.2-545
On the other hand the evidence is that Romney and his people ~ including Virginia’s Lt. Governor Bolling, CHEATED just like Democrats in Chicago.
EDINVA, is the proviso that Ron Paul and Mitt Romney are exempted from verification because they each presented more than 15,000 raw signatures part of the Virginia Code as well?