[mission9]

The little Ron Paul boy who took the video of me voting (8X) and accused me of “voter fraud” shows how ignorant some one who never took a civics lesson can be. It is impossible to commit voter fraud in a fund raising event for the Pinellas Republican Party. The entire object of the event is not to practice “one man one vote” but to raise money to defeat socialism, crime and totalitarianism.

[4integrity]

As best as you can tell, were the Ron Paul supporters, generally, of one age group or do they span all ages?

[traviskicks]

No one, well at least not me, is accusing you of voter fraud. The Republican party is free to raise money however they see fit and within whatever rules they see fit. The main issue here is the media reporting on the issue, with the Romney campaign likely hoping for ‘Romney won’ headlines, without qualifiers, making it sound like all these people showed up at this straw poll to vote for Romney, that he has all this support in Fl, which is why the campaign spent the money, for the positive press.

But there appeared to be, at very least, some misconceptions on what the rules were before hand, which is also an issue, but, again, the main point of this article is to show what actually happened, versus what is portrayed in the media.

In fact, we got these same reports from the Ames Straw poll, that people were being paid for their time to go vote for Romney in IOWA. Not that this is illegal, but the false portrayal of the significance of these by the media is troubling...