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Major contenders? To be a major contender you must make sure you are on the ballot in all the states and have people from those states working and volunteering to assist in getting the required signatures. In Virginia the only person who can get signatures are Virginia residents who are registered voters. You cannot ship in hired help or volunteers form other states to run signature petitions around. Of course Paul and Romney went through this 4 years ago and that is why they are on the ballot.
You are engaging in circular logic here.
The GOP decided to scrutinize the petitions of non-Romney candidates to such a degree that it was impossible for them to get on the ballot. It shows a party establishment that has wed itself to a weak candidate they know their own voters don't like.
I'm starting to think more and more that Romney is a sacrificial lamb. The GOP doesn't really WANT to win. They know the economy is going to be awful for the next few years, why not let Obama get beaten up over it? They can reap benefits downballot in 2012 and bigger benefits in 2014 and 2016 as they groom Jeb Bush for the nomination. After 8 years of Obama's ineptitude, we'll look back at Dubya as the "golden era."
What database should they been using and what are the examples of these "most ridiculous reasons"?
Disqualifying rsignatures because voter registration data are not up to date is ridiculous. That a signature gatherer must be a resident of Virginia is ridiculous. That any mispelling or mismatch of any kind allows for the signature to be dropped is ridiculous.
The point of the petition is to show broad support for a candidate to get on the ballot. Gingrich has been running among the top two candidates in Virginia for a while now so to disqualify him on the basis of bad addresses for the signatures on the petition is assinine and anti-democratic.
The GOP of Virginia does not trust its membership to vote for the parties nominee in an election that includes all the top candidates.
They are a bunch of elitist crony hypocrital frauds.
I signature check candidate petitions all the time and those are all, exactly, reasons I would reject a signature on a nomination petition.
Top reasons for signature rejections on petitions (based on FIRST HAND experience)
Not Registered
Registered at different address
^^^ More made up shit from out of your ass.I think that means allowing any old signature penned by anyone which either doesn't qualify as a valid signature, or didn't bother to write their address.
It does not mean only those things but many other situations as well as when someone wrote their address on the petition as '123 Bird Lane' But someone screwed up with the voter registration and put in '123 Bird Dr.' or even '123' Bird Ln.'
When cronies work the rules of the system for their patron, logic and intent are irrelevant.
Democrat cronies have done similar things for years to toss out GOP votes, and it seems like the GOP sellouts are now using such tactics against Tea Party people and the candidates they most support.
You, nor anyone at this point, knows the full details on how Gingrich or Perry came up short -- it has not been reported yet if it was the overall number, whether they lacked addresses completely, whether someone filled in pages on their own, how many Mickey Mouses there actually were, if some addresses were not even *in* the state, or if the specific 11 congressional district /400 signature requirement was met.
All you are doing is throwing out shit in hopes to convince the gullible.
It does not mean only those things but many other situations as well as when someone wrote their address on the petition as '123 Bird Lane' But someone screwed up with the voter registration and put in '123 Bird Dr.' or even '123' Bird Ln.'
You two, and maybe that orea twit are the only ones who appear to be fellating each other to a frenzy with distorted information to convince yourselves it's not pathetic to defend.Glad to see that someone else gets it on these boards.
I dont get why so many here seem comfortable with crony fascism.
You two, and maybe that orea twit are the only ones who appear to be fellating each other to a frenzy with distorted information to convince yourselves it's not pathetic to defend.Glad to see that someone else gets it on these boards.
I dont get why so many here seem comfortable with crony fascism.
Most honest folks here, including many conservatives & republicans, recognize how stupid it would make them look to make the kind of arguments you boys are.
Some people care about their credibility and reputation.
It does not mean only those things but many other situations as well as when someone wrote their address on the petition as '123 Bird Lane' But someone screwed up with the voter registration and put in '123 Bird Dr.' or even '123' Bird Ln.'
And you can provide evidence of this?
I don't know if you are aware, but this is the 21st century and you can't "screw up the address" in most of the voter registration software I've encountered. The system auto corrects to the information from the USPS and from GIS.
We don't reject for differences like "Dr vs Ave" or even a slight difference in spelling in street names. We also don't reject for apartment # changes since they still reside at the physical address. Also not rejected, name changes as long as there are similarities in the signature.
All this crying because the politicians got out maneuvered Wow. Shut it.
Fair elections are no big deal to you? Rigged votes are OK?
Shove it.
JimBowie1958 said:You mean like five of seven candidates being struck from a ballot?
TWO out of FOUR who actually submitted the paperwork were struck.
You can't be "struck from the ballot" when you don't even TRY to get on it.
If he had any integrity, he'd stop repeating the lie.
TWO out of FOUR who actually submitted the paperwork were struck.
You can't be "struck from the ballot" when you don't even TRY to get on it.
If he had any integrity, he'd stop repeating the lie.
Alright, that's it, right there! You're lying. You're being sucked into the lie, speaking in their words. This is the stuff that gives them power, don't do it!
Last week, nobody was on the ballot. NOBODY! Two of the fourt who tried to get on the ballot failed to get on the ballot. They didn't fulfill their obligations. They were never on the ballot in the first place, so they were never struck from the ballot.
59 AM by Plutarch
Fair elections are no big deal to you? Rigged votes are OK?
Shove it.
These are fair elections. The candidates had their chance to get on the ballot and they BLEW it. They're not entitled to a place on the ballot, they have to earn it.
Nothing in this is rigged. The rules were set out long ago. Gingrich doesn't even deny that he failed to collect the necessary signatures.
TWO out of FOUR who actually submitted the paperwork were struck.
You can't be "struck from the ballot" when you don't even TRY to get on it.
If he had any integrity, he'd stop repeating the lie.
Alright, that's it, right there! You're lying. You're being sucked into the lie, speaking in their words. This is the stuff that gives them power, don't do it!
Last week, nobody was on the ballot. NOBODY! Two of the fourt who tried to get on the ballot failed to get on the ballot. They didn't fulfill their obligations. They were never on the ballot in the first place, so they were never struck from the ballot.
JimBowie1958 said:You mean like five of seven candidates being struck from a ballot?
You see right there.
You lied again.
Folks, there is so much shit this dude keeps flinging, most of it not even worth addressing ....but THIS - he keeps repeating over and over.
IT IS A LIE.
Five of seven candidates were NOT "struck from a ballot."
TWO out of FOUR who actually submitted the paperwork were struck.
You can't be "struck from the ballot" when you don't even TRY to get on it.
If he had any integrity, he'd stop repeating the lie.
TWO out of FOUR who actually submitted the paperwork were struck.
You can't be "struck from the ballot" when you don't even TRY to get on it.
If he had any integrity, he'd stop repeating the lie.
Alright, that's it, right there! You're lying. You're being sucked into the lie, speaking in their words. This is the stuff that gives them power, don't do it!
Last week, nobody was on the ballot. NOBODY! Two of the fourt who tried to get on the ballot failed to get on the ballot. They didn't fulfill their obligations. They were never on the ballot in the first place, so they were never struck from the ballot.
Touche my good man! Touche!
Why Oh Why was I kept out of the Boston Marathon! 
