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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 53 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."
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.
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NathanTheGreat
(78 posts)I'm sure the actual results were nowhere close to what the reported results are...the very problem with caucuses being that the people who are running them are completely biased and often will change the voting to better reflect their personal politics.
How do I get to be a caucus captain?
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)CanonRay
(14,121 posts)and they can't count to 50...are they all homeschooled?
bigtree
(86,008 posts)where is Santorum on this? Is he in the bag for Romney, or is he going to challenge the results based on these reports?
I'd love to smash Santorum in the general. (there's just no way to make that sound right)
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)Looks like True may be an attention seeker.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)dkf
(37,305 posts)jakeXT
(10,575 posts)"The story on Romney getting extra votes as a result of a typo looks credible IMO," tweeted The New York Times' statistical wunderkind Nate Silver tonight. "Romney did very badly in other precincts in that county."
Indeed, according to the Iowa GOP's posted results, out of 13 caucuses in Appanoose County, Romney received double-digits at only one other caucus beside Washington Wells. He is said to have received 20 votes at Vermillion Douglas Sharon, but other than those two sites, Romney received just 45 at the other 11 caucus sites combined...
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9044#more-9044