Posted on 01/15/2012 2:02:31 AM PST by Mozilla
The State Board of Elections is asking Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) to investigate “irregularities” with signatures that presidential candidate Newt Gingrich submitted to get on Virginia’s ballot, board chairman Charlie Judd said Saturday.
Gingrich’s campaign told state officials it had submitted 11,050 signatures. But a Richmond area firm hired to collect them turned in 1,500 signatures that appeared to be signed by the same person.
“We hired somebody who turned in false signatures,’’ Gingrich told reporters late last month while campaigning in Iowa. “We turned in 11,100 – we needed 10,000 – 1,500 of them were by one guy who frankly committed fraud.”
On Friday, a federal judge denied a request by the former House speaker and three other presidential candidates to add their names to the March 6 primary ballot.
Gingrich, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, and former Utah governor Jon Huntsman Jr. had failed to qualify for the Virginia ballot and challenged qualification rules by suing the State Board of Elections and the state GOP.
Only former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Rep. Ron Paul (Tex.) will appear on the Virginia primary ballot on Super Tuesday, March 6.
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Milt shouldn’t have hired a company named “Illegal Alien Lawn & Garden Services” but he did.
The victim is guilty until proven innocent.
It sure is suspicious that the person who was the target of the highest highest percentage of attack ads also had such a strange occurance which prevented him from getting on the VA ballot. Not any other candidate but Gingrich. I would want to look into it further myself. Perhaps it was just some strange coincidence but I doubt it.
Nothing to see here. Let's just move along...
What a bunch of nonsense! Newt is a major candidate, this requirement was made to keep anyone from just popping in.
Gingrich should have hired someone to put enough fraudulent signatures on the forms to get him past the magic 15,000 number, at which point no checking would have been done. The smarter candidates knew about this loophole and took care of business. /s
and the {obama-appointed? clinton-appointed?} judge decided that his vote is more important than the millions of votes that might be otherwise cast on primary day.
From Wikipedia:
“John Adrian Gibney, Jr. (born October 27, 1951) is an American lawyer and judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The Senate confirmed his appointment on 16 December 2010.”
So, it looks like he is an Obama appointment confirmed by Reid’s Senate.
Virginia shouldn't be ruled by FASCIST PIGS.
Was that company reorganized by Bain Capital?
We don’t need his kind in Virginia.
Yes, I guess in this case every vote doesn’t need to be counted.
Yeah - he should have done in-depth background checks for this high-paying job or personally knocked on 10,000 doors. Using you "perspective", I should have never bought that refrigerator from Lowes because they sent a ditwad out to deliver it and it got dropped so I had to have him take it back.
If someone forged 1500 signatures, have criminal charges been filed against him?
Or is he being promoted for his service to the Party?
Maybe the guy was a dem, or a Ron Paul supporter?
Or (dare I say) a Romney operative?
Newt Gingrich’s campaign is starting to look like a game of SORRY!
And he’s the smartest man in the room?
I’ll go with an honest OOPH’s before I go with a guy that continues to create his own demise by covering up his true modus operendi
Gingrich: Campaign worker's signature fraud cost slot on Virginia ballot
'"We hired somebody who turned in false signatures. We turned in 11,100 – we needed 10,000 – 1,500 of them were by one guy who frankly committed fraud."
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