[Gideon7]

the party is, for apparently the first time, cross-checking the addresses that signature-givers gave against the electronic voter database file for accuracies. A name without a proper address match was tossed, the official said.

Aha. Now we are learning something. This check was done by computer, and for the first time. And all candidates who applied for certifiaction were rejected.

Could be due to an overly-strict address match algorithm. For example if your actual street address is "1234 N Main St" but you wrote down "1234 Main" you got rejected.

New computerized process. Done for the first time. Rejects ALL candidates who used it. It's a process problem/glitch.

[txrangerette]

There were only two who applied...Perry and Gingrich.

Bachmann, Santorum and Huntsman did not apply because they didn’t have the goods and knew it.

But yes, nobody made it who didn’t make it last time (Obama, Romney, Paul), too.