CNN talked to Edith Pfeffer, the chairwoman of the Clinton County Republican Party.
Pfeffer said she went to her caucus on Tuesday night and thought the election ran smoothly. She said her daughter asked her around 10 p.m. why one Clinton precinct had not reported its results.
Pfeffer said she knew they had been called in by the precinct chair at 7:48 p.m.
At 11:30, Pfeffer said she got a call from the Romney campaign asking what the figures were for that missing precinct.
about 12:30 p.m., she heard someone pounding on her windows and her front door and ringing her door bell. Startled, she saw her friend Caroline Tallett, another local GOP activist, outside in her yard. “I thought, ‘What in the world is going on?’” Pfeffer said.
Tallett said she was at home watching CNN waiting for the results when she was contacted by a state party official, who said they needed the missing results as soon as possible.
Pfeffer said she’s still not sure exactly why the votes were not recorded, but believes it was “some type of computer glitch.” She insisted the precinct chair called them into the state party and filled out all the appropriate forms.
Were the votes counted at 7:30 pm and then recounted again after 2:00 am to give Romney the win?
How did Carl Rove know which counties and which precincts were not in, while everyone else was looking
for a missing truck from Iowa State University?
Edith—It wasn’t a computer glitch, it was the tooth fairy.
(Edith—they forgot to teach you in skool about how politics really works. You have just learned lesson #1—he who counts the votes makes the rules.)
He knew because the map showed which areas still had votes out. Therefore, he concluded a Romney win (he said by around a 100 votes, so it was a lot narrower than Rove even predicted) based on the results of precincts in the same area.
Don’t get this conspiracy theory. Besides, no need to whine about an eight-vote loss that really is a huge victory for a candidate who was in the single digits a few weeks ago.