"Virginia May Have Improperly Excluded Signatures From Perry, Gingrich. a Recount May Be Needed!
Posted on 25 December 2011.
I’m no attorney but I do know how to find and read the laws of Virginia.
Various reports have stated that the signatures turned in by Newt Gingrich included at least 2,000 that were invalidated because there was no address given with the signature.
If this were a Virginia Statewide office, that would be correct. But this is a Presidential Primary. And while the rules are similar, they are actually addressed in two separate sections of the Virginia Code.
There is a requirement in a Statewide General Election that the address be included, but there is no such requirement for a presidential primary. The number of signatures are the same, 10,000 and 400 per Congressional District. But the address requirements are different."
Does anybody know why the signatures were rejected? Does anybody even know if and how many ballots were rejected for missing addresses? It seems that you would first need to know why the ballots were rejected to make a determination about whether the “rejections” were valid.