Huckabee 'Not Ready to Concede', Challenging 'Dubious' WA State GOP Caucus; LA Primary Even Closer!

[BradBlog]

Huckabee 'Not Ready to Concede', 'Looking at Some Legal Issues' in Bizarre Washington State GOP Caucus
Says 'Weird Things' Going On as Party Stops Counting Votes at 87%, Declares McCain 'Winner' with Just 242 Vote Margin out of nearly 14,000 Reported Tallied So Far
Paul Currently in Third Place, Just 427 Votes Behind Huckabee as Louisiana GOP Race Shows Even Slimmer Margin for 'Winner' Huckabee by less than 1%, Tallied on Fully Unverifiable Sequoia Electronic Voting Machines...

"The Huckabee Presidential Campaign will be exploring all available legal options regarding the dubious final results for the state of Washington State Republican precinct caucuses," according to a statement posted today on their official campaign website.

It was 2:30am on the West Coast last night as we noticed CNN was reporting only 87% of precincts counted from Washington state's Republican Caucus yesterday. Just over 200 votes separated the leader John McCain, from Mike Huckabee in a very close second, with Ron Paul coming in a very close third.

And then, in the middle of the night, the state GOP posted a press release declaring McCain the winner, even with some 13% of the votes still unreported, and just 242 votes --- out of 13,745 reported so far --- separating McCain from Huckabee who'd finished a "strong second" according to the GOP release.

This afternoon, the Huckabee camp is announcing they are prepared to go to court if necessary, as the candidate himself declared that "weird things" are going on in Washington while on NBC's Meet the Press.

At the same time, the results of the GOP Louisiana Primary, as announced by the state, are even closer than those so far released in Washington. Though because the election was held on wholly unverifiable electronic voting machines, everyone will simply have to settle for whatever numbers the faith-based systems reported to them, no matter how close the margin...

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[Patsy Stone]

1. Something is rotten

in the state of Washington.

[K Gardner]

2. Yeah.. I woke up this morning and saw "McCain wins WA" and went.. WTF? And look at

the comments about LA and "faith-based voting systems", ROFL ! Welcome to OUR world, GOP.

[Arkana]

3. Can't believe I'm saying this...

Go Huck go!

[paparush]

4. Neocon Election Stealing Machine(TM) is getting warmed up!!

[lurky]

5. So the Republicans turn their tactics upon their own.

McCain will be gravely damaged by this. This is devastating.

[ORDagnabbit]

6. Its called transparent and verifiable elections for everyone!!!!

[BradBlog]

7. Or...as the case may be...lack thereof...

[Mithreal]

8. I call shenanigans! You might not believe the number of Ron Paul

supporters in my part of Puget Sound. Must have been very embarrassing for the 'sophisticated' folks.

[McCamy Taylor]

9. GOP election theft is the primaries is a very real problem. In Texas in 2006 it was

so bad that Tarrant County (Fort Worth) was given a special dispensation to use paper ballots even though GOP state attorney general had ruled them against the will of god or something. That was because there was such a flagrant screw up in the primary that no one in the county would touch them in the general. However, the GOP found another way to hack the general. The Teamsters (who supported the GOP Gov. Rick Perry) called a bus strike over nothing the day before the election, shut down city transportation for those without cars, called off the strike a couple of days later without any gains. The county went GOP even though Dallas next door went Democrat. Just shows that Republicans are always inventive.

[acmavm]

10. The Irony-o-meter just broke.

edit: or would that be the 'Ironometer'?

[Dr.Phool]

11. Did the Wash. Repuke Party hire Jeb Bush and Kenneth Blackwell?