I think there are discrepancies in the results that Maine GOP released:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euESvujmh-E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euESvujmh-E
There's not just discrepancies in the Maine results with the numbers of watchdog groups. The entire list of released results from the MaineGOP site is basically void within itself. Please look for yourself it will take just one second.
Here is the link to the MaineGOP results: http://www.mainegop.com/wp-content/u...us_results.pdf
Scroll down to the 3rd page, Cumberland-Gorham. Add up the results horizontally to see if they add up to the total. They don't. 24+23+8+4+0= 59. The listed total of this row is 56. The listed totals number is understated by 3, or there is a candidate or candidates that got 3 more votes than they were supposed to.
On the same page find Cumberland-South Portland. The results sheet lists the total for the row as 81. Now again sum the row to see if it is correct, 29+28+19+9+0= 85. The discrepancy here is 4.
Just from these two precincts, or towns, or whatever it is they happen to be, there are 7 more votes counted towards the candidates than there are reported totals. If they were honest mistakes, then they would show up in some way in the final summation provided by the MaineGOP results. So let us scroll down to the very bottom where they show final totals. Due to the 2 errors I found in 3 minutes (I only looked at Cumberland) we can expect the summation of that row to be off.
Scroll down to page 13. 2190+1996+989+349+61= 5585. The totals number listed of 5585 matches the sum of the totals of the individual candidates. There is no discrepancy here. The chance of this happening is extremely rare. What it means, assuming no foul play, is that these totals randomly had to somewhere along the line experience a mistake(s) of the opposite manner of the exact same magnitude to cancel out the previous discrepancies.
So without even checking these GOP results with any watchdog results, they are highly suspect. What's more for you real conspiracy theorists if you look at those 2 towns in Cumberland I pointed out with the incorrect numbers, in both of those cases Romney happens to beat Paul by 1 vote. 24-23 and 29-28.
There's not just discrepancies in the Maine results with the numbers of watchdog groups. The entire list of released results from the MaineGOP site is basically void within itself. Please look for yourself it will take just one second.
Here is the link to the MaineGOP results: http://www.mainegop.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/me_gop_caucus_results.pdf
Scroll down to the 3rd page, Cumberland-Gorham. Add up the results horizontally to see if they add up to the total. They don't. 24+23+8+4+0= 59. The listed total of this row is 56. The listed totals number is understated by 3, or there is a candidate or candidates that got 3 more votes than they were supposed to.
On the same page find Cumberland-South Portland. The results sheet lists the total for the row as 81. Now again sum the row to see if it is correct, 29+28+19+9+0= 85. The discrepancy here is 4.
Just from these two precincts, or towns, or whatever it is they happen to be, there are 7 more votes counted towards the candidates than there are reported totals. If they were honest mistakes, then they would show up in some way in the final summation provided by the MaineGOP results. So let us scroll down to the very bottom where they show final totals. Due to the 2 errors I found in 3 minutes (I only looked at Cumberland) we can expect the summation of that row to be off.
Scroll down to page 13. 2190+1996+989+349+61= 5585. The totals number listed of 5585 matches the sum of the totals of the individual candidates. There is no discrepancy here. The chance of this happening is extremely rare. What it means, assuming no foul play, is that these totals randomly had to somewhere along the line experience a mistake(s) of the opposite manner of the exact same magnitude to cancel out the previous discrepancies.
So without even checking these GOP results with any watchdog results, they are highly suspect. What's more for you real conspiracy theorists if you look at those 2 towns in Cumberland I pointed out with the incorrect numbers, in both of those cases Romney happens to beat Paul by 1 vote. 24-23 and 29-28.
I've been playing with the numbers a little.
I found Knox-Camden 19+6+2+5+0=32, not 28; and Knox-Friendship 2+2+4+1+0=8, not 7.
Then I came to Penobscot County. Alton (3 votes) and Bangor (77 votes) show totals of 0. Dixmont has 1+0+1+0+1=3, not 4 (this is the only one I see that has less than the reported total). Newport has 9+6+6+1+0=22, not 21.
At this point I got sick of counting towns and wanted to see where the totals don't add up. I got 5493 rather than 5585. The difference is 92 which is the same difference between actual votes and reported totals in the towns Aurave and I found. So what does this say? Both Romney's and Paul's columns add to their official totals (2190 and 1996 respectively). So they probably added up each column and then added those numbers to get 5585. So these could all be honest mistakes.
Either way, I would really like to see the correct results for these towns.
There's not just discrepancies in the Maine results with the numbers of watchdog groups. The entire list of released results from the MaineGOP site is basically void within itself. Please look for yourself it will take just one second.
Here is the link to the MaineGOP results: http://www.mainegop.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/me_gop_caucus_results.pdf
Scroll down to the 3rd page, Cumberland-Gorham. Add up the results horizontally to see if they add up to the total. They don't. 24+23+8+4+0= 59. The listed total of this row is 56. The listed totals number is understated by 3, or there is a candidate or candidates that got 3 more votes than they were supposed to.
On the same page find Cumberland-South Portland. The results sheet lists the total for the row as 81. Now again sum the row to see if it is correct, 29+28+19+9+0= 85. The discrepancy here is 4.
Just from these two precincts, or towns, or whatever it is they happen to be, there are 7 more votes counted towards the candidates than there are reported totals. If they were honest mistakes, then they would show up in some way in the final summation provided by the MaineGOP results. So let us scroll down to the very bottom where they show final totals. Due to the 2 errors I found in 3 minutes (I only looked at Cumberland) we can expect the summation of that row to be off.
Scroll down to page 13. 2190+1996+989+349+61= 5585. The totals number listed of 5585 matches the sum of the totals of the individual candidates. There is no discrepancy here. The chance of this happening is extremely rare. What it means, assuming no foul play, is that these totals randomly had to somewhere along the line experience a mistake(s) of the opposite manner of the exact same magnitude to cancel out the previous discrepancies.
So without even checking these GOP results with any watchdog results, they are highly suspect. What's more for you real conspiracy theorists if you look at those 2 towns in Cumberland I pointed out with the incorrect numbers, in both of those cases Romney happens to beat Paul by 1 vote. 24-23 and 29-28.
Your Friendship numbers are wrong.
Friendship was 3,2,2,1 which adds to 8, not the 7 they have.
3,2,2,1 is accurate.
Yea, sorry typed a "4" when I meant "3".
Do we know which of the 7 voters voted twice?