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"The voter rolls were tampered with. Party affiliations were changed."

I don't understand. What would be the motive to change someone's affiliation from GOP to Independent? If someone changed mine for example and I couldn't vote, it would have zero effect on Democrats and someone trying to effect the results of the GOP primary wouldn't have a clue what candidate they would be helping or hurting.

It was assumed based on polling data that White registered Republican voters in the Southern California area would vote Romney; Hispanic and other minority Republican voters would vote McCain. It would appear that the change in party affiliation that led to many Republicans not casting their votes were NOT, shall we say, Spanish sur-named. The real problem is that this seemed to be happening, to a lesser extent, to Republican voters in other areas - it happened to a voter in front of me in line in Fairfield (she was “switched” to Democrat and she was registered Republican)

I don’t know if there are sinister implications to all this or not - but it’s more than passing strange. The other thing accomplished by this, of course, is that Hillary and Obama will start spinning that the independent voters jumped to them even though that’s not exactly true; Independent voters couldn’t vote in the Republican primary, for instance, so there’s no way to know where they really stand.

I don't understand. What would be the motive to change someone's affiliation from GOP to Independent? If someone changed mine for example and I couldn't vote, it would have zero effect on Democrats and someone trying to effect the results of the GOP primary wouldn't have a clue what candidate they would be helping or hurting.

San Diego county polled heavily in favor of Romny before the election. McCain won the county by about 5,000 votes, and the state by about 180,000.

At least in San Diego, this could well have cost Romny the vote and SD's delegates. Same for Orange county from what I hear. The numbers of those that had their party affiliation changed in SD alone could be in the tens of thousands. Statewide, who knows?

Democrats are reporting a very high turn out, while the Republicans, apparantly, stayed home. Every republican I know went to vote and was very animated to do so.

Those that went, only to find they could not vote Republican because their affiliation had been changed had to choose an alternate ballot in order to vote for even the propositions. Many chose to use a Democrat ballot.

The turn out differentials are large enough to indicate that McCain very well might have lost to Romny if this had not happened. Conservative talk show hosts all over the state have received hundreds of calls and e-mails from outraged republican voters.

Do the math.