The Virginia Board of Elections published a letter sent to the candidates, explaining the ballot access rules. In those rules, the VBE stated that the petitions required full addresses.
The RPV had nothing to do with that, or the petition format itself which is also dictated by the VBE. If someone is misinterpreting the law, it is the Virginia state Board of Elections, and they have been doing so for a long time.
The RPV is given the task of verifying the petitions. They follow the direction of the VBE, so if the VBE says addresses are required, the RPV checks addresses.
It is of course possible that the VBE did not recognize a difference between state and federal elections that actually exists in the code. I doubt people have been looking at it all that much. Remember, in most cases without an address you can’t verify a signature is a registered voter. If the voter provided the last 4 digits of the SS number, that might uniquely identify them so an address would be redundant.
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Like with Cain.
Or Trump.
Someone found something important to them and squeezed.
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The RPV had nothing to do with that, or the petition format itself which is also dictated by the VBE. If someone is misinterpreting the law, it is the Virginia state Board of Elections, and they have been doing so for a long time.
Really? The presidential candidates for the 2008 Presidential primary elections did not need to submit addresses for their signatures... nor were they checked for validity.
So, to you, less than four years is 'a long time'?