There shouldn't be this much confusion unless it's on purpose.
I am beginning to smell a lot of Rove in this.
COnfusion is normal for newspapers. My guess is they misunderstood the court filing. Perry’s lawyers put the number of verified (qualified) signatures in the filing, not the total they submitted, and some have mistakenly thought Perry’s team was saying they only submitted that many.
There’s been a lot of confusion. For example, Ron Paul didn’t submit 15,000 signatures, as some have said. He went through the full verification process, but had enough valid signatures. The process was to check each signature until you either found 10,000 good ones, or enough bad ones that there were no longer a possibility of 10,000 good ones.
Therefore, nobody knows how many total valid signatures anybody had; they stopped counting Paul at 10,000, and stopped counting Perry and Gingrich when they hit enough bad ones. So when you see “weren’t close”, that’s somewhat becuase if they had found 6000 good signatures at the time they found the 2000th’s bad signature, they’d stop, and you wouldn’t know whether the last 4000 signatures were good or bad.
“The Washington Examiner says Perry did not submit enough sigs yet Perry’s team says it’s been common knowledge that Perry submitted just under 12,000 and Newt submitted just over 11,000.”
this actually doesnt surprise me
Gingrich had zero groub game ubtil very recently heck he failed to get on MO ballot so i am not surprised they flubbed more.
Perry looks like a bufoon whose campaign has been stuck in damage control since its launch
not hard to believe they didnt get on the VA ballot