THe RPV sent a media advisory, so I believe it is correct that Perry is out. I haven’t seen the official explanation, just that they did not verify the required 10,000 signatures.
Could be they missed some sheets, or miscounted when they turned them in. The initial counts were provided by the submittals I believe, not an actual cursory count. So the campaign could have messed up.
What i hope we don’t learn is that there’s a folder somewhere in one of the volunteer’s car with the last 1000 signatures. That would suck (well, I suppose if it were just that, the RPV would probably vote to let them in — the legal reporting date isn’t until tuesday).
So would there still be the opportunity to get more signatures by Tues?
Rereading the report no where in the Wapost story does it say “RPV sent a media advisory”. Instead it says “State GOP officials reported” and has no official quotes.
Now accepting the fact that MSM writers are publix skol edumakaded and the story could be poorly written, either of us could be right, but I am not ready to write off Perry not being on the ballot. Lot of wishful thinking posters may be in for a surprise come next week.
His campaign has until Tuesday to turn in the required number. If some worker has a missing sheet surely it could be submitted until the deadline unless there is some hanky-panky going on with RPV.
CWCT, reading further down the thread I see you are conecting to RPV web for info. I’ll defer to your having better data than my conjecture.