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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHang on to your dangling chads. Vote count error may mean Santorum squeezes by Romney in Iowa.
Appanoose County man claims Romney vote total is wrongBy Michael Schaffer - Managing editor Daily Iowegian
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Edward L. True, of Moulton, claims in an affidavit Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's caucus vote total is wrong.
True writes Mitt Romney in his precinct of Washington and Wells township was given credit for 22 ballots when he actually only received two.
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"I talked to Appanoose County officials and their numbers matched mine," True said by telephone Thursday night. "It's the state's numbers that don't match."
True said he was one of three people to count the ballots Tuesday night and said with 100 percent certainty Romney's total is off by 20.
http://dailyiowegian.com/local/x1666062402/Appanoose-County-man-claims-Romney-vote-total-is-wrong
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Hang on to your dangling chads. Vote count error may mean Santorum squeezes by Romney in Iowa. (Original Post)
progressoid
Jan 2012
OP
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)1. if the state is interested in accuracy they need to check their numbers.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,023 posts)2. What?!? Human error?? They shoulda hired Diebold...
or as its calling itself now, "Premier"
Lone_Star_Dem
(28,158 posts)3. Oh, but there was a 21-vote mistake in Romney's favor.
Or so they're saying now.
In an interview with Fox News Channels Greta van Susteren, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum pooh-poohed any idea that he actually won the Iowa Caucus, an assertion some supporters are making after one caucus attendee reported an apparent clerical error that over-counted Mitt Romneys support by 20 votes.
Heres what I know. Having talked to the chairman of the Matt Strawn, whos the chairman of the Iowa Republican Party of Iowa, that all these counties are going to be reporting in, Santorum said. Theyre going to be certifying them, that there was one county where there was a 20-vote mistake in my favor, but there was a 21-vote mistake vote in Romneys favor. So it actually netted out to what I understand is a one-vote difference, Santorum said.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/santorum-dismisses-story-of-error-that-cost-him-iowa-victory/
Heres what I know. Having talked to the chairman of the Matt Strawn, whos the chairman of the Iowa Republican Party of Iowa, that all these counties are going to be reporting in, Santorum said. Theyre going to be certifying them, that there was one county where there was a 20-vote mistake in my favor, but there was a 21-vote mistake vote in Romneys favor. So it actually netted out to what I understand is a one-vote difference, Santorum said.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/santorum-dismisses-story-of-error-that-cost-him-iowa-victory/
progressoid
(49,999 posts)5. Ohfercryinoutloud.
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)4. And his last name is True. Some things you just can't make up.
rocktivity