Yeah, onyx. I was just assuming it was bad ground game, but this is really, really fishy.
They’ve NEVER cross-checked signatures before, and suddenly all of these Mitt-backers in charge of the process in VA are requiring every signature be cross-checked with a database for correct addresses? Not even just to see if they are, in fact, registered voters, but they have to have correct addresses?
What constitutes an incorrect address? What if they just left off the zip code? How does having a different address prove you’re not a registered voter?
This was a very well-organized act by Team Romney to disqualify everyone. As I have said before: Virginia is winner-take-all. EVERYONE in VA should vote for Ron Paul now to deny Mitt Romney ANY delegates. These guys should NOT be rewarded for this absolute crock of steaming crap.
The Mitt backers have zero power directly in the VA republican party. It is all Bob McDonnell. He is running the show. As I have been trying to say for over a,year McD is ESTABLISHMENT, not a tea party conservative.
I used to work in the credit card industry. They use something called the Address Verification System (AVS). It’s used to verify addresses when making purchases online by credit card.
The credit card industry have expertise in address verification going back decades.
They know that the name part of the address is worthless for verification because it varies so much: “1234 N Main St” could be written as “1234 Main”, “1234 North Main”, “1234 Main Street N”, “1234 Main Ave”, “1234 Horse Path Road” (old name for Main Street), and a hundred other variations.
The credit card industry does address verification way by for the longest string of consecutive digits in the street address and compares that against its database, and nothing else.
For example if you wrote down “1234 Mian Ave Northe” it would only check “1234” against your real address and it would match. The presumption is that the odds of two people with the same name and the same digits in their street address being two different people is negligible.
I would not surprise me if the VA computer system is using some lame-o character comparison algorithm over the whole string, like a stricmp().
Yes, it SUX and stinks, but I anticipate a successful challenge.
Heretofore, I thought entire addresses were missing!!!
I see that Gideon7 has also replied with good information.