[P-Marlowe]

If I lived in Virginia I would be filing a lawsuit on Equal Protection grounds for the disqualification of the candidate for whom I signed a petition. I wouldn't even wait for the candidate to do it. They are disenfranchising the voters by this arbitrary system they set up.

I think I could argue that writ of mandamus be issued requiring the Secretary of State to put the names of everyone who submitted the requisite 10,000 signatures on the ballot. If they are not going to check all the signatures, then they have no business checking any of them.

All I can say is that this is Bull$#i+.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Disenfranchising the Virginia voters - who apparently support Newt more than anyone else and who apparently like Perry right much also - is the first thing my wife thought when she heard about it.

The rule was obviously meant to measure viable support. Perhaps it was well intended. But obviously it is now outdated and simply runs counter to its stated intent. Any such rule should be discarded.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

LOL! But they will still come back at you and scold you for being wrong! (Even though you are probably qualified with a Law Degree to belong on a Supreme Court somewhere!)

And Godspeed to you good FRFiend! We need more FReepers like you, especially these days.