Recount keeps Romney on top, but new results likely to prolong controversy

[sailingaway]

Webster said they've now added up all the votes from Maine except from Washington County, but the new numbers will likely only increase suspicion among Paul's supporters and Webster's detractors.

It turns out Paul won many of the communities that hadn't previously been counted. Paul beat Romney 21 to 5 in Waterville, according to the new GOP data. Paul also beat Romney 72 to 59 in Waldo County.

But the vote tallies were revised enough in other towns to add to Romney's lead, according to the new data.

In Limington, Paul originally received 20 votes. But after the recount, Paul received zero votes.

In Portland, Paul originally beat Romney 106-91. But after the recount, Romney beat Paul 106-91.

In Bar Harbor, the GOP originally said 22 people voted. But after the recount, it said 27 voted and the five extra votes went to Romney.

In Trenton, the GOP originally said 15 people voted. But after the recount, it said 20 voted and all five extra votes went to Romney.

Likely adding fuel to the flames, Webster said Friday night some towns votes still weren't included in the recount, if they voted after 5 p.m. on Feb. 11 or if he couldn't get in touch with them.

Late Friday, a town-by-town tally of the recount still showed some towns with zero votes.

http://www.pressherald.com/Recount-doesnt-change-vote-totals-Maine-GOP-says.html

 

[Epic]

In Limington, Paul originally received 20 votes. But after the recount, Paul received zero votes.

Yeah right!!!

 

[Salvial]

Press on! This isn't through.

 

[SCOTUSman]

Yeah so odd, two places 5 votes were added, 100% for Willard Romney. The switch in Portland. Going from 20 votes to 0 in Limington (by the way...can't we just try and identify one or two voters for RP in limington to show what happened??? if not then maybe we did get zero.....but if we can just identify one, then we can point that out on the Maine GOP).

I thought when Swann did his count, we went down to 157 votes (instead of it going up to 239 from the 196). After the count from the official one with today's votes we are down 111. That is a gain of 121 votes. If we got 121 votes on the 157....we only trail by 36.

 

[affa]

What a cluster****.

The good news is that the takeaway is that it was close race, it's debatable who the winner is, and the Maine GOP was in the tank for Romney... and did their best to obfuscate honest results.

 

[MozoVote]

I won't say I sympathize with Webster - he made this bed by making vote fraud *SUCH* an issue leading up to becoming chairman.

But it is probably true some of what we're seeing is the disorganization and confusion that comes with running a statewide organization, without controls in place to check for errors to begin with.

If Webster is up to the task of getting to the bottom of the problems and making sure they are not repeated, maybe he'll keep his job. But if he just spins and stonewalls, I expect he's going to be hounded out of the chairman's seat.

 

[sailingaway]

What a cluster****.

The good news is that the takeaway is that it was close race, it's debatable who the winner is, and the Maine GOP was in the tank for Romney... and did their best to obfuscate honest results.

Yes, short of a win, it is a good result.

 

[SCOTUSman]

with today's numbers and if swann's numbers were right we are down 36, but then if it is true that s. paris was a copy of pairs, we gain four more votes, so we would be down 32...in the best case scenario at this point.

 

[Drex]

How do you give someone 20 votes then ZERO?

 

[rp2012win]

They article keeps saying "after the recount" when there was no recount. It boggles the mind how vote totals could change so drastically when no recount ever took place because the ballots were immediately destroyed.

 

[sailingaway]

How do you give someone 20 votes then ZERO?

Ask Webster. Apparently someone delivered a black hole to his spam filter and when he opened the message it ate Ron's votes....

 

[bcreps85]

with today's numbers and if swann's numbers were right we are down 36, but then if it is true that s. paris was a copy of pairs, we gain four more votes, so we would be down 32...in the best case scenario at this point.

Exactly why I hope we get some answers on some of the more "strange" changes that occurred in the "new spreadsheet. We are not only within striking distance of a win, but within striking distance of proving an organized effort against us.

 

[kathy88]

Ask Webster. Apparently someone delivered a black hole to his spam filter and when he opened the message it ate Ron's votes....

Next he'll blame a computer virus.

 

[JJ2]

with today's numbers and if swann's numbers were right we are down 36, but then if it is true that s. paris was a copy of pairs, we gain four more votes, so we would be down 32...in the best case scenario at this point.

Then we just have to get 33+ people to caucus in Castine on March 3.

 

[bcreps85]

They article keeps saying "after the recount" when there was no recount. It boggles the mind how vote totals could change so drastically when no recount ever took place because the ballots were immediately destroyed.

Exactly. If things were "missing" in spam, we'd expect vote totals ADDED. There is very little explanation for some of the other "clerical" errors being reported. Let's see...20 votes to 0? Doubtful. Now...20 votes to 2? Ok, maybe there was a type-o. One where Romney went from 1 to 6, everyone else remained the same. Santorum went from 6 to 33 in one area...how does that happen? Those aren't even close to each other on the keyboard! Their changes just don't make sense.

Do they have bigfoot typing this shit...with his feet?

 

[sailingaway]

Next he'll blame a computer virus.

No problem. He can have the chairs all deliver the votes to us, we'll do the math.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

Exactly why I hope we get some answers on some of the more "strange" changes that occurred in the "new spreadsheet. We are not only within striking distance of a win, but within striking distance of proving an organized effort against us.

We'll never formally get the former from the Maine GOP. They are hell bent on obfuscating the results so that we can't possibly get it right. We can and I think will, reveal the widespread corruption of the GOP in Maine against Ron Paul, however. That is enough for me. I just want people to know what happened.

 

[sailingaway]

We'll never formally get the former from the Maine GOP. They are hell bent on obfuscating the results so that we can't possibly get it right. We can and I think will, reveal the widespread corruption of the GOP in Maine against Ron Paul, however. That is enough for me. I just want people to know what happened.

Yeah. I also hope we do well in the remaining caucuses because the gap being 'within the fudge factor' of odd numbers makes for a good narrative along those lines.

 

[SCOTUSman]

Exactly why I hope we get some answers on some of the more "strange" changes that occurred in the "new spreadsheet. We are not only within striking distance of a win, but within striking distance of proving an organized effort against us.

Exactly. You know Webster is sweating his butt off right now...we just got to get a few pieces of evidence.....

 

[bluesc]

So... How do we elect our people into the Maine GOP? At the state convention?

I'd like to dethrone every last one of them.