This is the undated letter.
The PDF file contains a hidden Microsoft Word creation date of 12/21/2011.
This is the undated letter.
The PDF file contains a hidden Microsoft Word creation date of 12/21/2011.
Or was this simply a cover your A$$ letter?
If the candidates started their petitions drive in good faith and ASSUMED the old laws were in effect, I would think those petitions should be Grandfathered in. You can't just change the laws in mid stream of something, well maybe they can, how convenient.
15000 names do not have to be checked, by volunteers? But, 10600 names WILL HAVE TO BE CHECKED by volunteers checking other volunteers work????
Can't 5001 of those 15000 be false as well?
| The case of Osborne v. Boyles, was on October 24th, where Independent state delegate candidate Michael Osborne filed suit ... But that is not a valid excuse here, because Osborne was running for a STATE office, not a Presidential Primary. http://www.varight.com/news/virginia-may-have-improperly-excluded-signatures-from-perry-gingrich-a-recount-may-be-needed/ Virginia law REQUIRES an address on petitions for state offices: § 24.2-506 ...signed by the number of qualified voters specified below after January 1 of the year in which the election is held and listing the residence address of each such voter. Virginia law does NOT require an address on petitions for Presidential Primaries: § 24.2-545 This law regulating primary signatures is clearly separate. § 24.2-545 specifically does NOT require addresses, nor the signatures to be taken after January 1st. B. Any person seeking the nomination of the national political party for the office of President of the United States, or any group organized in this Commonwealth on behalf of, and with the consent of such person, may file with the State Board petitions signed by at least 10,000 qualified voters, including at least 400 qualified voters from each congressional district in the Commonwealth, who attest that they intend to participate in the primary of the same political party as the candidate for whom the petitions are filed. Such petitions shall be filed with the State Board by the primary filing deadline. The petitions shall be on a form prescribed by the State Board and shall be sealed in one or more containers to which is attached a written statement giving the name of the presidential candidate and the number of signatures on the petitions contained in the containers. Such person or group shall also attach a list of the names of persons who would be elected delegates and alternate delegates to the political party’s national convention if the person wins the primary and the party has determined that its delegates will be selected pursuant to the primary. The slate of delegates and alternates shall comply with the rules of the national and state party.It is reasonable for some voters to understand that Virginia law has NEVER required the address on those primary petitions. It is optional, just like the SSN on the presidential petition form is also optional. I believe there is also a recent Virginia court precedent where a petition gatherer was slightly in error on something, and the judge ruled that the voter should not be disenfranchised. The voter's intent to sign the petition outweighed the slight technical difficulty. |
| FReepers should SAVE a copy of this PDF file asap, before it is changed! http://www.rpv.org/sites/default/files/2012%20Petition%20Certification%20Process_1.pdf This un-dated "Safe Harbor" letter is the smoking gun that could sink Romney-conspirators in the Virginia R.P. office, including  Executive director: David Rexrode,  Chairman: Pat Mullins,  and maybe even Lt. Gov. Bill BollingGideon7 correctly pointed out that the letter was CREATED in WORD on 12/21/2011. Some freepers have suggested maybe that's just the date the letter was scanned, but no way... You can tell by zooming in close with a PDF editor that the characters and images are all perfect. This was not a scanned document. It was, as the document indicates internally, CREATED on 12/21/2011 using Microsoft WORD. Furthermore, the file also indicates the Author. Just open up this file with WordPad, and search for "2011", and on that line you will find the author... <</Author(Dave Rexrode) ...... /CreationDate(D:20111221100053-05'00') /ModDate(D:20111221100053-05'00')Why this is important is that ONE DAY EARLIER, Tuesday 12/20, Lt. Gov. Bolling had personally delivered 16,026 petitions for Romney. This letter guarantees that Romney's petitions would NOT be examined. They could NOT be challenged even if 90% said "Mickey Mouse" and showed no addresses. Meanwhile nearly every other candidate will fail the newly planned microscopic-signature checking [even though state law for Presidential Primaries § 24.2-545 does not require street addresses] Mister Rexrode has even been so brash as to quote to the NY Times and others that Gingrich can do nothing about this... "Gingrich may appeal the party's decision to its State Central Committee, but Dave Rexrode, executive director of the Republican Party of Virginia, said there is not enough time to hold a meeting before the State Board of Elections meets Wednesday."
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Disgusting. I am ashamed to be a resident of Virginia.