Alaska Dispatch: How did Ron Paul lose Alaska?

[sailingaway]

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/how-did-ron-paul-lose-alaska

<-- Still like dog sled....

 

[bluesc]

Cheated out of a win then?

 

[TIMB0B]

Remember when some griped on here about how if RP only showed up to this and that state, he would have won such and such state? Well, he was the only one to go to Alaska, and he still lost. Either it's fraud, or his support is only a fraction of what we believe it to be.

 

[sailingaway]

Cheated out of a win then?

Don't know. Just posting a data point. That is what they did last time in LA though, according to what I've read, they made people clear against outdated registration lists knowing most of the new registered voters were for Ron.

 

[rb3b3]

I wonder what the exit polls were showing!! Did anyone conduct exit polls of Alaska??

 

[JJ2]

I wonder what the exit polls were showing!! Did anyone conduct exit polls of Alaska??

The article says the campaign did and that the results did not match the GOP's numbers:

Ron Paul for Alaska campaign chief Evan Cutler said the candidate's supporters and organizers who were out at the polls Tuesday night harbored other suspicions.

"People were turned away at the polls that were registered to vote due to confusion among the poll volunteers. Voter registration databases were outdated," Cutler said his organizers reported, going on to add that, "younger voters, voters of a certain demographic were turned away" and that the campaign had conducted exit polling across the state and that numbers reported by the state party leaders "didn't jibe."

FRAUD.

Yes, again.

 

[kathy88]

Comments are a must read.

 

[NoOneButPaul]

The article says the campaign did and that the results did not match the GOP's numbers:



FRAUD.

Yes, again.

Maybe the campaign, that is currently dead in the water, should actually, you know, FIGHT AGAINST THE FRAUD!

If the fraud is really so rampant and obvious then why in the hell aren't they doing anything about it?!

If they were really in it to win it then they would, if their numbers don't add up and they think something fishy is going on then DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!

 

[Working Poor]

If the fraud is really so rampant and obvious then why in the hell aren't they doing anything about it?!

Exactly what can be done about it do you know?

 

[thoughtomator]

An accusation of vote fraud out of the mouth of RP himself would end the GOP as a going concern.

 

[phil4truth]

An accusation of vote fraud out of the mouth of RP himself would end the GOP as a going concern.

But for Ron to do that he would obviously need concrete evidence. I have no doubt if this was presented to him or Doug Wead then it would be all guns blazing. But for Ron to simply come out and say this without any evidence would be ludicrous.

 

[Suzu]

Maybe the campaign, that is currently dead in the water, should actually, you know, FIGHT AGAINST THE FRAUD!

GTFOOH. Paul's campaign is alive, well, and amassing delegates at the precinct and county levels. OUR job is to fund the campaign and FIGHT as hard as we can to WIN. Now GTFOOOH if you have nothing to contribute to that effort.

 

[Butchie]

Exactly what can be done about it do you know?

Start sending people to these polling stations and get some of this stuff on tape. I've heard countless accussations of people being turned away, votes not being counted or "thrown out" but I've yet to see one solid piece of evidence of it. With cell phone cameras everywhere nowadays you'd think somone would have gotten it on film by now.

 

[malkusm]

The article says the campaign did and that the results did not match the GOP's numbers:



FRAUD.

Yes, again.

HEARSAY.

Yes, again.

 

[thoughtomator]

But for Ron to do that he would obviously need concrete evidence.

Having no actual inside information, I'm near-certain that RP could, if he wished, produce hard, concrete evidence from not just one but several of the contests to date. I could make a pretty solid case for it just on what is public, and I'm sure the campaign has more info on it than I do.

 

[sailingaway]

HEARSAY.

Yes, again.

Yeah, but in the Alaska Dispatch. They know who these people are, and apparently others have had run ins with this guy before. I obviously don't know what the facts are, but as they come out, if they do, I'd want to know.

 

[shelskov]

An accusation of vote fraud out of the mouth of RP himself would end the GOP as a going concern.

No the media would just brand him a crazy conspiracy theorist sore loser...

 

[malkusm]

Yeah, but in the Alaska Dispatch. They know who these people are, and apparently others have had run ins with this guy before. I obviously don't know what the facts are, but as they come out, if they do, I'd want to know.

Key word highlighted. Claiming fraud when we have no credible evidence in every state where Ron was supposed to do well is highly counterproductive, IMO. In Maine we had facts, and that's fine. In Alaska and North Dakota, we don't.

 

[thoughtomator]

No the media would just brand him a crazy conspiracy theorist sore loser...

If the media branding was as effective as you suggest, he would have suffered the fate of Govs Johnson and Roemer.

 

[JJ2]

Key word highlighted. Claiming fraud when we have no credible evidence in every state where Ron was supposed to do well is highly counterproductive, IMO. In Maine we had facts, and that's fine. In Alaska and North Dakota, we don't.

I'm not claiming fraud. Ron Paul's state campaign chairman is claiming fraud.

They have the facts. Their exit poll numbers do not line up with the GOP's "official" numbers.

Exit polling data is how they prove election fraud in third world countries.