Over the weekend, Virginia attorney general (and gubernatorial hopeful) Ken Cuccinelli announced that he would try to get the four main candidates left off the Virginia primary ballot onto the ballot with emergency legislation. But Sunday, he appeared to change his mind completely, backing away from the idea. Cuccinelli comments, via RedState:
I obviously feel very strongly that Virginia needs to change its ballot access requirements for our statewide elections,” Cuccinelli said in a statement.
However, after working through different scenarios with Republican and Democratic leaders to attempt to make changes in time for the 2012 presidential election, my concern grows that we cannot find a way to make such changes fair to the Romney and Paul campaigns that qualified even with Virginia’s burdensome system.
A further critical factor that I must consider is that changing the rules midstream is inconsistent with respecting and preserving the rule of law — something I am particularly sensitive to as Virginia’s attorney general.
