[mylife]

Virginia campaign lawyer Chris Ashby notes, those candidates “who submit 14,999 or fewer, however, will undergo signature-by-signature scrutiny of his or her petitions — something no statewide candidate in recent memory ever has had to endure.”

Oh! so this is all new BS?

Legal challenge!

[SaxxonWoods]

It’s certainly a back door way to help front runners.

[EDINVA]

As I understood the procedure, any candidate submitting 15K+ signatures wouldn’t have his/her petitions examined under the presumption that that many would not be invalid. This guy says 14K.

The two who submitted >15K have both already run for POTUS, so are more familiar with the rules and procedures, That doesn’t explain away the on-the-ground folks working on this for Perry who seem to have failed him. And for all we know the same situation abides with Gingrich.

Get over your ‘legal challenge’ ... it ain’t gonna happen. The RPV makes the rules for candidates choosing to run on its primary ballot. Those rules are fairly straightforward: 10K signatures, with a minimum of 400 from each Congressional District. They will have given Perry and Gingrich every opportunity to qualify.

You and the Perry (and possibly Gingrich) people can hope that there is an error in the rolls, and that’s about the only thing left to challenge.

In the meanwhile, VA voters are stuck if the only ones who qualify are Romney and Paul. Major write-in drives will ensure.