Basically, Ken is making the threshold for making it on the ballot is if you receive federal matching funds. Good. Virginia's primary voters deserve to be taken care of. We deserve to have candidates come to Virginia and be apart of this process, too.
Virginia deserves better than to simply be a stepping stone for one candidate. What irks me above all is the insane rule that if you get to a certain threshold, in this case 15,000 signatures, means that you don't even have your signatures looked at? So if you perpetuate a fraud on a large scale, you can get away with it? And I'm not above wondering if the powers-that-be in Richmond who are backing Romney didn't have a hand in all of this. But I have no proof.
Oh, and as much as I love Rick Santorum I will still be voting for Ron Paul as a giant middle finger to every one involved in telling us who to vote for on both the state and federal level.
Please don't vote for Ron Paul, even as a protest.
I have never met a paulista who was not either a druggie looking for legalized dope, a slacker looking for someone else to pay their way, or an antisemite ... a very foolish lot. More paulies are just young and inexperienced takers disguised as libertarians.
If you want to join that crowd, be my guest.
Posted by: Luellen Fontaine | January 01, 2012 at 11:36 AM
Probably the right thing, for the wrong reasons and the wrong methodology.
As I understand it (I don't practice election law), qualification for federal matching funds is based upon a formula wholly dependent upon fundraising.
The question I have is this: do we really want to make access to the ballot in Virginia dependent upon the money a candidate raises? Perhaps this would create a good outcome, but I think it's a legitimate question to ask.
Posted by: James Young | January 01, 2012 at 08:21 PM