Posted on 01/05/2012 9:30:57 PM PST by Mozilla
In addition, there are no official results yet. They are going through everything. So it is quite possible that there could be multiple errors like this found. At this point, so far as I can tell, there have been two reports of errors in reporting.
Rick Santorum has personally said that he knows of those two errors, one of which is this report, and that the results would end up making Romney the winner by 9 votes instead of 8.
There is no advantage to Santorum at this point in a focus on the vote counts. He knows that the “2nd-place finish” was just like a win for him, and any focus on 10 votes here or there will just detract from what is coming next.
ONE vote matters. Each ONE of our votes should matter. I stayed up until 2:00 A.M. to find out who won, and it was the strangest thing, but first they announced that they were waiting for votes being driven in to the counting location “by a guy in a pick-up truck”. Then they said they couldn’t find the votes from the last two remaining precincts. Then we were told of an error in an already counted precinct. And all of this information came from Karl Rove who supposedly had contacts in all of the areas in question. This is the same establishment Karl Rove who has been pushing Romney on us and using his super pac to buy negative ads against all of Romney’s opponents. Curious, isn’t it?
Here’s what Santorum has to say:
“Here’s what I know,” Santorum told Fox News. “Having talked to the chairman Matt Strawn, who is the chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa, that all these counties are going to be reporting in, they’re going to be certifying them that there was one county where there was a 20-vote mistake in my favor but there was a 21-vote mistake in Romney’s favor so it actually netted out to what I understand is a one-vote difference.”
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