Too bad they aren’t checking eligibility of the candidates re being natural born citizens...
So, that’s the reason for the “lack of address” elimination.
Addresses did not match their database! Voters move in between elections!
Merry Christmas, Jim and all. Re-post my prior comment from another thread:
If just addressses, the omitted candidates could be succesful with a Court challenge. Courts generally rule that the law doesn’t “elevate form over substance”. Beyond that, they usually rule in favor of voter participation. If the petition omissions are purely technical (e.g. no addresses)– the omitted candidates should go to Court as a class- and request relief that they be allowed to amend the petitions to include the addresses. (Don’t think one can add names at this point).
All omitted candidates must join- can’t be just one. That will leave Romney and the State GOP to argue against inclusion– not a great argument when likely 70% of the GOP voters favor other candidates.
Something stinks bad.
This has the stench of Rove all over it.
Vin, your thoughts on the previous thread will most likely come into play.
Voter “intent” (new accuate addresses) versus “database” = this will be challenged.
Romney will be forced to defend the exclusion of his number one rival, Gingrich, and also Perry.
They first became suspicious when the names actually matched a known adress.
This is very unusual, said a unnamed source, usually the adress do not match. Often the residents are deceased or have names like Mickey Mouse or Adolf Hitler.
To bad Newt is not a minority who could claim his civil right are being violated.
So you smell a rat too?
This is an utterly absurd basis for disqualification because it implies the electronic data base is accurate and that those who gathered the signatures were being fraudulent. Neither assumptions are either valid or provable. One way to disprove this is to verify that the addresses of those on the petition sheets are actually true and the data base is incorrect.
Indeed!!! Its one thing to double check a Lyndon LaRouche type, another to check a former Speaker and a Governor of Texas.
Seems 20% moved between elections, and this is grounds for denying the candidate (s) a position on the ballot??
neat trick, if they can pull it off.
I would have lawyers all over this so quick they would be amazed.
I am just devastated. Heard on Fox News that VA rules do not allow a write in during primaries and that going to court won’t matter either? the chosen one “Romney” is being crammed down our throats...just like when our mothers made us take a dose of bad medicine. I wont vote if it is Romney or Paul. RIGGED election
Selective enforcement of the law is the rule of men, not of law.
No dooubt Mark Levin and Rush will be all over this.
PING!
I bet this has more to do with the 400 signatures from each district rule than, the signatures not being from valid registered voters.
I have not seen a satisfactory explanation of why all these names have been thrown out.
I find it impossible to believe that longtime politicians like Newt and Perry just submitted a bunch of bogus names thinking they could wing it.
It does not pass the smell test.
Now, most on this forum would support a law requiring that before casting a vote a voter must produce a driver’s license or some other document to prove that the voter is who he says he is. Why do you and others now have a problem with requiring the same in the primary process. Can you have it both ways without looking hypocritical? Mitt would be only slightly better than Obama for the next four years, but doesn’t logical consistency count for something?
“The Republican party cross-checking addresses against database for the FIRST TIME? Smells pretty fishy to me.”
It stinks to high heaven. The VA gop is about as establishment as it gets. And they’ll likely get away with it. VA courts are not particularly sympathetic to these kinds of challenges.
This is one of those times that having run as a third party candidate probably helped Ron Paul; he knows that you have to dot the i’s and cross the t’s on the paperwork. States are always trying to exclude third parties from the ballot based on this kind of petty BS.
McDonnell has to be behind this. He wants to either vote present in this endorsement cycle or endorse Romney. Having Perry and Gingrich off the ballot gives him cover either way (endorsing Romney over Paul wont hurt Micky D with state conservatives). If it looks like a non Romney will get the nomination on the run up to Super Tuesday, Micky D will simply vote present. Bob McDonnell is fully entrenched in the establishment and is a danger. As a Virginian, I keep trying to warn everyone.
This is orchestrated by the GOP elite who want Obamney as the candidate, it is fishy, indeed. The only thing they will accomplish is getting Obama re-elected.