According to KCCI-TV in Des Moines, Iowa, results from one small town may have been miscounted, costing Rick Santorum a victory in Tuesday’s caucus. We are all aware that Mitt Romney was credited with an 8 vote victory after all of the results were tabulated. However, a glitch in reporting the results from the small town of Moulton may have affected the final reported results.
A man named Edward True of Moulton is claiming that he helped count the votes from that town’s caucus. After he placed the results on his Facebook page, he checked to make sure that the state Republican Party got the results from Moulton right. He was surprised to discover that the state had credited Romney with 22 votes out of the 53 people who voted instead of the 2 votes that Romney actually received. If true, Santorum was actually the victor on Tuesday by 12 votes.
A spokesperson for the Iowa Republican Party who was interviewed by the station stated that True was not a precinct captain or a county chairperson and is therefore not permitted to discuss votes received with the media. The spokeswoman also said that the Republican Party would not be providing any further statements until the votes have been certified.
True is a Ron Paul supporter. He said that he hopes that it was a simple mistake, and that someone could have just hit the 2 key twice, rather than once.
January 5th, 2012 at 7:35 pm
It’s a proportional state. A tie is a tie is a tie no matter the votes.
January 5th, 2012 at 9:42 pm
It was a missing X! Just like EAP said!
A missing X, and Jesus Christ and all His saints wuz denied!
After all, X do equal Jesus, no?
January 6th, 2012 at 6:10 am
Well, proportional or not, there is still the whole psychological aspect of winning. Finishing first. The 2012 Iowa Caucus will now go down in history with an asterisk attached to it since we never will know who really won it.
January 6th, 2012 at 10:30 am
We will know who really won when the vote is certified in two weeks. They will correct any errors by then.
January 6th, 2012 at 3:30 pm
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January 6th, 2012 at 5:01 pm
Great picture, Awl!!! Too funny!!!
January 6th, 2012 at 5:30 pm
I’ve got to find some way to make fun of these people to keep from blowing my top.
Have you seen that series of ‘promos’ on MSNBC ? Those people must know that the Democrat constituency is not only the least informed demo, but also the least educated and flat out dumbest.
Laurence O’Donnell is just dumbfounded that ‘they’ considered the G.I. Bill to be ‘welfare’. What he doesn’t want his audience to know is that ‘they’ consisted of about 3 people. The overwhelming majority were in favor of it.
Those who were against it were the Blue Bloods. The tweedy prep-school crowd were taken aback that the blue-collar crowd would go to college. Nowhere was this more pronounced than in the NY publishing cabal. Kerouac and his crowd paid hell trying to get anything in to print.