Kentucky and Arkansas results

[MarcusI]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the fact that Ron Paul actually won a county in Kentucky, Trigg County.

Yeah! Results from that county came in very late.

 

[J_White]

200 votes ? sounds familiar, isnt that the margin by which Charlie Webster declared Romney the winner in Maine ?

AR Secretary of State website says only 33% reporting with Paul in 2nd by about 200 votes. CNN,MSNBC, and Politico have total at 64% reporting with Paul in 3rd by about 200 votes.

 

[MarcusI]

Congrats to Trigg County, that's awesome! In sharp contrast, we have Lee County with 0 votes for RP. Zero. Epic Fail.

I see Lee County with 24 votes or 9% on CNN and WP

 

[J_White]

thank u !!
btw is this the vote for Republican Congressional primary too ?

Here's all I know

 

[MarcusI]

Arkansas:

Paul 19,136

Santorum 19,081


98% reporting according to CNN, 88.7% of precincts reporting according to AP/WP, though same totals


Best counties in Arkansas:

Clay County

Mitt Romney
57%

Ron Paul
24%

Rick Santorum
15%

Newt Gingrich
4%


Prairie County

Mitt Romney
61%

Ron Paul
23%

Rick Santorum
13%

Newt Gingrich
3%

Searcy County

Mitt Romney
57%

Ron Paul
21%

Rick Santorum
15%

Newt Gingrich
7%

 

[Krzysztof Lesiak]

Arkansas: Paul 13% (probably 2nd)

Kentucky: Paul 13% (2nd)

Not bad I guess. If he had visited those states I'm sure he would have been able to get over the 15% threshold.

 

[MarcusI]

Paul already doubled his numbers in Arkansas compared to 2008 - 19,571 to 10,983 - with 92 or 99% reporting, although the turnout went down by about one third.

Last election cycles primary in Arkansas was a differnt game though - Huckebees home state and held on Feb 5th. Results:

Mike Huckabee 138,557 60.46%
John McCain 46,343 20.22%
Mitt Romney 30,997 13.53%
Ron Paul 10,983 4.79%

Total 229,153

 

[NatePinAR]

Local news station numbers: http://www.todaysthv.com/news/elections/results/results.aspx?raceid=1

 

[parocks]

What do you guys know about Alecia Webb-Edgington? Is she an "establishment" type person?

I've got some interesting charts with her taking votes from Massie in Kenton county.
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...occurence-of-algorithmic-vote-flipping/page80

More! crazy! talk!

 

[NatePinAR]

I see Lee County with 24 votes or 9% on CNN and WP

Correcting my last post: According to the Secretary of State, all precincts 100% reported for Lee County. Total for Ron Paul: One Vote.

 

[MarcusI]

Correcting my last post: According to the Secretary of State, all precincts 100% reported for Lee County. Total for Ron Paul: One Vote.

And I was confused with the two Lee counties - one in AR and one in KY

 

[keh10]

Paul already doubled his numbers in Arkansas compared to 2008 - 19,571 to 10,983 - with 92 or 99% reporting, although the turnout went down by about one third.

Last election cycles primary in Arkansas was a differnt game though - Huckebees home state and held on Feb 5th. Results:

Mike Huckabee 138,557 60.46%
John McCain 46,343 20.22%
Mitt Romney 30,997 13.53%
Ron Paul 10,983 4.79%

Total 229,153

Yep, I remember that day. We've made some ground today, but it's a shame we couldn't make the 15% threshold in either state.

 

[RonRules]

I put up some charts for Arkansas. Looks fair and square as far as I can tell with charts. That would be a first this year.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...rence-of-algorithmic-vote-flipping&p=4445611#

 

[RonPaul101.com]

I still can;t believe so many votes were wasted on Santorum and Gingrich - are people that stupid, they have been out of the race for weeks/months.

People should have to pass a civil service type basic exam to renew your voting registration. This every idiot gets a vote stuff has gotten us no where...

 

[RonRules]

I still can;t believe so many votes were wasted on Santorum and Gingrich - are people that stupid, they have been out of the race for weeks/months.

People should have to pass a civil service type basic exam to renew your voting registration. This every idiot gets a vote stuff has gotten us no where...

I am concerned about that, but more concerned about the election officials not doing their jobs. Santorum and Gingrich should not have been on the ballots from a few days after April 10 and May 2 respectively. How difficult is it to wait till a few days before the elections and print the ballots then?

 

[J. W. Evans]

I am concerned about that, but more concerned about the election officials not doing their jobs. Santorum and Gingrich should not have been on the ballots from a few days after April 10 and May 2 respectively. How difficult is it to wait till a few days before the elections and print the ballots then?

Some states, such as Florida, allow dropped out candidates to post a note at polling locations come election day that say they've dropped out, others like my Massachusetts live by the deadline. Unfortunate point is, once the deadline passes and you left your name there, that's final. Reason being it's a legal issue.

At minimum, every single resident in every single community is printed their own ballot as to have a vote. In MA, every voter is guaranteed at least two more ballots if they botch up their original one and need to re-cast. In short, you're looking at a lot of stacks of paper ballots. In order to give themselves enough time to comfortably ship them all out to every town and city, they do it shortly after they have that withdrawal period deadline. Chances are these ballots were sitting in some local town halls since sometime in April, and others probably more recently.
As annoying as that is, if they tried even a week out in advance and something went wrong, you know people would be in a furor if a community was like "You can't vote because we don't have our ballots yet." Hell, we did it when they turned away people at the Alaska caucuses.
At the same time, Gingrich and Santorum dropped respectively, so if they just recalled ballots and re-issued them for each time, can you imagine the time, cost, and materials needed?

 

[Gage]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the fact that Ron Paul actually won a county in Kentucky, Trigg County.

I guess it was an error, because it shows Romney winning with a huge margin now, even though it said 100% reporting when it had Ron winning.

 

[sailingaway]

I guess it was an error, because it shows Romney winning with a huge margin now, even though it said 100% reporting when it had Ron winning.

oddly that happened in Iowa too. 100% in, Ron won counties flipping to Romney later.

Whatever the reason was, it never went the other way.