BREAKING: Perry disqualified from Va. primary ballot

washingtonpost.com ^ | 12/23/2011 | Anita Kumar

[TBBT]

Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry failed to submit enough valid signatures to qualify for the Virginia primary ballot, state GOP officials said Friday evening.

Perry’s campaign told state election officials it had submitted 11,911 signatures, but a Virginia Republican familiar with the situation said that the Texas governor did not submit the required 10,000.

Earlier Friday, the Republican Party of Virginia certified former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Rep. Ron Paul (Tex.) to appear in the March ballot.

Four candidates — Romney, Perry, Paul and former House speaker Newt Gingrich — turned in thousands of signatures by the deadline. State party officials are spending the day certifying the signataries.

They have not examined Gingrich’s signatures yet, but expected to do so by late Friday night.

Candidates had until 5 p.m. to collect 10,000 signatures from across the state, including 400 from each congressional district.

Republican presidential candidates Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman and Rick Santorum did not submit signatures, according to state GOP officials

[TBBT]

WOW!

[al baby]

Rool it up thats it

[Vendome]

Ohhhh kay.....

[mnehring]

Not good. Who is in charge of ‘disqualifying’ signatures. A 10% buffer seems enough to take into account some bad ones.

[al baby]

Roll

[SkyDancer]

Plus no BC???

[VicVega]

Virginia is disenfranchising voters. Wait, only works for democrats. LOL

[B Knotts]

Republican presidential candidates Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman and Rick Santorum did not submit signatures, according to state GOP officials

What is up with that? Is it just that their campaigns don't have the cash for paid signature gatherers?

[DoughtyOne]

Ouch. That smarts.

Hick-ups generally hit every campaign. It’s surprising, but it’s not a game changer.

[Happy Rain]

Perry should just drop out and endorse Bachman or Santorum...

...the guys a goof.

Good enough for Texas but then what ain't?

[TBBT]

Larry Sabato expects the state GOP will turn a “blind eye” to any signature problems on Perry’s or Gingrich’s petitions. - HotAir

That's what I was expecting too... Guess Larry and I were wrong.

[mylife]

Interesting that the article says Perry submitted almost 12K signatures but no were in the story does it sat VA disputes that.

Hmmmm.....

[truth_seeker]

Somebody who wants to become President ought to have no problem completing this requirement.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks TBBT.

[mnehring]

Perry should just drop out and endorse Bachman or Santorum...

I guess you missed in the article that Bachmann and Santorum didn't submit signatures at all so they aren't on the ballot there either. This whole primary is a cluster.

[gorush]

Isn’t that like an endorsement?

[jonrick46]

Good night! Governor Perry has got the saddle, but no horse.

[TribalPrincess2U]

My guess he missed a lot of things.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Talking about Happy Rain not Perry.

[EGPWS]

Perry’s campaign told state election officials it had submitted 11,911 signatures, but a Virginia Republican familiar with the situation said that the Texas governor did not submit the required 10,000.

David Axelrod stole them. >