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Virginia Times-Dispatch Points Out that if Virginia Republicans Hadn’t Removed Loyalty Oath, Newt Gingrich Would Not Have Been Able to Vote

Posted on January 22, 2012 by admin

This Richmond Times-Dispatch story mentions that the Virginia State Board of Elections has complied with the Republican Party’s request to drop the loyalty oath for voters. The party had originally required all voters to pledge to vote for the Republican nominee in November, as a condition of receiving a ballot on March 6. As the story mentions, Newt Gingrich is a resident of Virginia, and he has already said that if Ron Paul becomes the Republican nominee, he will not vote for Paul. So, Newt would not have been able to vote in the March 6 primary if the oath had not been revoked.

Although Gingrich is now free to vote in his own state’s presidential primary, one wonders if he will vote, because his choices are limited to Ron Paul and Mitt Romney, and write-ins are not permitted.

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Virginia Times-Dispatch Points Out that if Virginia Republicans Hadn’t Removed Loyalty Oath, Newt Gingrich Would Not Have Been Able to Vote — No Comments

Phil Sawyer on January 22, 2012 at 8:47 am said:

In the last paragraph, did you not intend to write “Mitt Romney” rather than “Mitt Perry”?
Richard Winger on January 22, 2012 at 8:58 am said:

Thanks! I just now fixed it. I love commenters!
Julie on January 22, 2012 at 1:47 pm said:

His terrible Policies aside, Gingrich is good? in a debate, and thats why he won South Carolina. It doesn’t really matter though, because Gingrich will lose to Obama in 2012.
Demo Rep on January 22, 2012 at 10:35 pm said:

ANY *secret* ballots in VA ???

What do the VA ghosts of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Henry, etc. think about the EVIL ballot access machinations in VA and ALL other regimes ???
Phil Sawyer on January 23, 2012 at 7:05 am said:

You are very welcome, Richard. Thank you for all the hard work that you do every day to keep us informed. I am starting to wonder when this presidential campaign is going to become more interesting. So far, there does not seem to be any person (who is really well known in our country) to emerge that can challenge the two-party oligarchy that we have. I sure do miss the late, great, Eugene J. McCarthy!