I know number crunchers who are way out of Rove's league.
You had a 6200 vote gap between Cruz and Trump, who almost finished third. Cruz had 51666 votes. Carson had about 17,400 votes. In order for this gamesmanship (I'm not going to call it cheating as I've seen much dirtier politics than this on student council for Pete's sake) to have cost Trump, it would have had to cost Carson about 1/3 of his total vote (which would have all had to go to Cruz) - and Carson already well over-performed his polling.
This "four votes per precinct" line would be 9000 votes. That more votes than all except the top four vote getters total.
This “four votes per precinct” line would be 9000 votes. That more votes than all except the top four vote getters total.
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How do you get 9000 votes when you have 1500 precincts times 4 lost votes. You using Common core? old fashioned arithmetic gives me 1500 X 4 = 6000. But then common Core would give you any number you want as long as it clouds the issue about Cruz lying.