PENNSYLVANIA VOTER EMERGENCY!!! (Need 1000′s of Signatures THIS WEEKEND in Pennsylvania!)

[jscoppe]

What about the
Delegate signitures where are we on that? Do we have enough delegates, and did each of them get enough signitures for a full slate?

District 16 is good.

 

[MMolloy]

My GF, who is registered in PA and was visiting parents for the weekend, contacted her local Ron Paul person in charge of the signature gathering, to help get signatures to get Ron Paul on the ballot... But she was told by the local rep that getting signatures to get Ron Paul on the ballot wasn't as high a priority as getting signatures for the delegates, so she met with the local delegate instead and was able to help get a few signatures for him while she was in PA.

So is there misinformation floating around on how critical it is to get signatures for RON PAUL in PA versus signatures for Ron Paul delegates? I don't understand conflicting reports.

PA has 72 total Delegates = 59 Congressional District + 10 At Large + 3 RNC

The 59 Delegates are Unbound and are not linked to RP (on the ballot) and they go to the RNC without any intermediate steps. You vote for them directly by their name on Primary Day. i.e. If Joe E. Smith was a RP delegate, when you vote on primary day you would have to KNOW that Joe E. Smith was a RP delegate and pull the lever for him. Or if you'd like the Official Rule:
Rule 8.4 of the Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania's Rules states that all delegates elected by Congressional District "...shall run at large within the Districts and shall not be officially committed to any particular candidate on the ballot."

The 10 AL delegates are selected at the GOP State Committee meeting in the June and the Candidates Relative Performance is taken into account at that meeting but there is no hard and fast correlation.

The 3 RNC are like most other states:
3 party leaders, the National Committeeman, the National Committeewoman, and the chairman of the Pennsylvania's Republican Party, will attend the convention as unpledged delegates by virtue of their position.

Not getting Ron on the Ballot in PA would be huge for PR reasons but not much else.

 

[archangel689]

They'd have to throw out over 1500 signatures at this point.

 

[seawolf]

Let's hope Ron is able to get on the PA Ballot. As you said it would be a PR disaster if we failed.