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My, my, my, how convenient. Let’s see now, Chuck Hagel is an owner of Diebold, paper ballots are banned, Paul is the only pure Constitutionalist, results are delayed by a “machine malfunction”….hmmmmmmmmmmm, what conclusions can we draw from these “coincidences”?
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11 Aug 2007 09:12 pm
Gov Mitt Romney won the 2007 Ames straw poll, receiving 4516 votes, or 31%.
In a surprise, Gov. Mike Huckabee finished second with 2587 votes at 18.1%
11. John Cox with 41 votes.
10. John McCain with 101 votes.
9. Duncan Hunter with 174 votes.
8. Rudy Giuliani with 183 votes.
7. Fred Thomson with 231 votes.
6. Tommy Thompson, 1,009 votes, 7.3%
5. Ron Paul with 1305 votes, and 9.1%
4. Tom Tancredo with 1961 votes, 13.7%.
3. Sen. Sam Brownback with 2192 votes and 15.3%
Iowa state auditor David Vaudt unofficially certified the results.
14,203 ballots were cast.
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11 Aug 2007 08:52 pm
AMES -- Mary Tiffany, an Iowa Republican Party official, confirms that at least one voting machine malfunctioned and that tabulators recounted at least 1500 ballots.
The state party rented optical scan machines from Diebold, a company at the center of several recent voting controversies. Recently, the state of California decertified Diebold machines for the 2008 election.
Yesterday, Iowans who support Ron Paul failed to get a judge to require a voter-verified paper ballot be used in today's straw poll. Separately, the state party told the Paul campaign that a full paper recount would cost $184,000.
Already, some Paul supporters are whispering about a challenge.
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11 Aug 2007 08:44 pm
AMES -- The Atlantic's Joshua Green tells me that the Romney high command is currently huddled around campaign counsel Ben Ginsberg, one of the nation's preeminent election lawyers. Perhaps Mr. Ginsberg is telling a joke, or perhaps he is explaining to them the reason for the delay, as best as he can gather.
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11 Aug 2007 08:25 pm
AMES -- The announcement of tonight's straw poll results has been delayed due to what one informed source says was a voting machine malfunction. About 4,500 ballots had to be re-run. We are waiting....
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From: "Joe and Barb McCutchen" <>
Subject: Straw Poll vs. the facts
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:01:25 -0500
As many of you may know, Mike Huckabee came in 2nd in the Iowa Straw Poll. It is obvious that the Iowa voters are not privy to some of Huckabee’s behavior, which is unconstitutional and may in fact be criminal, i.e. Article 1, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution prohibiting treaties, arrangements, contracts, confederations, with a foreign governmentthis is the sole responsibility of the U.S. Congress.
The statistics are now posted on our website www.arkansasfreedom.com giving the numbers and dollar costs of the illegal alien women birthing one or more kids in Arkansas. Notice the monthly escalation.
Please pass this email on. This crisis is not peculiar to Arkansas.
Huckabee now states “we must secure our borders”…..truly a self-serving lout.
