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Posted on 01/05/2012 6:12:47 PM PST by mnehring
Caucus Vote Counter Says Romney Mistakenly Given 20 Votes
(Video report at link)
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Caucus night was chaotic in many places, with hundreds of voters, candidates showing up and the throngs of media who followed. The world's eyes were on Iowa. But in the quiet town of Moulton, Appanoose County, a caucus of 50 people may just blow up the results.
Edward True, 28, of Moulton, said he helped count the votes and jotted the results down on a piece of paper to post to his Facebook page. He said when he checked to make sure the Republican Party of Iowa got the count right, he said he was shocked to find they hadn't.
"When Mitt Romney won Iowa by eight votes and I've got a 20-vote discrepancy here, that right there says Rick Santorum won Iowa," True said. "Not Mitt Romney."
(Excerpt) Read more at kcci.com ...
Gov. Perry fast tracked a picture ID for voting in Texas last year. It’s done, we got it!
From a closed duplicate thread:
“When Mitt Romney won Iowa by eight votes and I’ve got a 20-vote discrepancy here, that right there says Rick Santorum won Iowa,” True said. “Not Mitt Romney.” True said at his 53-person caucus at the Garrett Memorial Library, Romney received two votes. According to the Iowa Republican Party’s website, True’s precinct cast 22 votes for Romney. “This is huge,” True said. “It essentially changes who won.”
Good news, but now we need photo ID voting in OH, PA, FL, IA, NM, VA, MI, and NC!!!
Most people don’t know that the IA caucus is just a media event and the votes are non-binding. Convention. The real IA reult will be determined by the IA delegates to the Republican Convention. Ron Paul’s staffers are hanging back in IA and plan to collect all the delegates. Don’t be surprised when you hear that IA gives all its votes to Ron Paul!
This may not be an isolated incident. Although it could easily have been a typo.
That’s pretty well known here. (as well as most know what the Paultards are doing).
Yes we do.
I agree the narrative was set. I watched the excellent Santorum speech at FoxNews via an FR thread. I’d missed the first sentence, so tried to re-view it. I got a message that the video was unavailable. I went back to the FoxNews site and literally saw the link to the Santorum speech disappear. There was good coverage of the other candidates’ comments that night.
On Wednesday, Rush said he’d put the Santorum speech link up, but apologized later that he’d been unable to find it. Eventually he put three short clips up, apologizing that he’d been unable to find the whole speech. By Wednesday night I’d found the speech on YouTube, but there were only a few hundred views.
Those eight votes cost Santorum a huge amount of press coverage and buzz.
Santorum and Paul are against ethanol subsidies. Romney (while in Iowa) is in favor of them.
The results haven’t changed in the Google Fusion precinct results online yet.
One wonders how many such instances there were.
I, for one, would like to know the full story on this, whether it makes any "substantial" difference or not.
Parksstp did post this thread today.
There was a candidate rep at each precinct watching the counting (they at least had the opportunity to have one); and a candidate rep at the location in Des Moines where all the totals were aggregated for the total statewide numbers.
Not sure what could have happened. But if someone wrote down numbers incorrectly when they were read; that could cause that person to think they were wrong.
Not really, the primaries are about building up momentum. A win in NH will contribute to Romney’s momentum. He does not have to say he won the first two, most people will think that anyway, even if this technical switch in the order of the tie happens.
BTW, it probably is a really a tie in delegate which is what this is all about.
What the Iowa ethanol group has as Santorum’s quotes:
Radio Iowa, June 10, 2011
“When you travel around the country, ethanol has a pretty bad name in a lot of areas, that, you know, this is a big boondoggle. It doesn’t work. It consumes more energy than it produces. And so I thought, ‘Well, you know, I’ve got to find out what the truth is,’ and so I’ve done that. And I’ve been very impressed that a lot of progress has been made in the efficiency of the production process.”
Philadelphia Inquirer, January 31, 2008
“Across Pennsylvania, farmers are also digging and planting corn and other crops that will be turned into ethanol that can replace gasoline in our cars. Most cars in America can’t run on ethanol, however, so who is going to install ethanol pumps at the gas station without the cars to run on it? At this point I would say to all of my hard-core conservative friends: Hold on to your hats. *************** What we need is a government mandate! We need to mandate that all cars sold in the United States, starting with the 2010 model year, be ‘flex-fuel vehicles’ – that is, they should be able to run on a blend that is 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline (the so-called E85 blend), or even a coal-derived methanol/gas mixture. This mandate would cost a fraction of the new fuel economy standard with the added benefit of saving barrels more oil.”***
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Just making Mittens look like a loser would be enough for me.
“Santorum and Paul are against ethanol subsidies.”
They are gone
Interesting report about the speech. It was an excellent speech-—no wonder it got pulled. This is the first I have heard that it became mysteriously unavailable.
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