Republicans Really Screwed Up Last Weekend’s Maine Caucuses

February 14, 2012 at 3:17 PM Leave a comment

For a party that claims (emphasis on claims) to be obsessed about perfection when it comes to all things voting, Republicans really know how to screw up ah, voting:

Eeeeek! A Fraud! (RJ Matson, Roll Call, April 16, 2007)

Pressure Mounting for GOP Caucus Reconsideration

Pressure is on the Maine Republican Party to reconsider its weekend declaration that Mitt Romney won the state’s caucuses.

The Maine GOP announced Saturday that Romney narrowly edged Ron Paul, 39 percent to 36 percent, in a nonbinding presidential preference poll taken during the caucuses. The margin was fewer than 200 votes.

A number of communities were not included in that poll because they had not held their caucuses in time. Washington County Republicans postponed their caucuses, originally scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 11, because of a pending snowstorm and will now meet this Saturday. Other communities across the states also have caucuses scheduled for this weekend and later this month.

All along, state GOP officials said communities knew that their votes would not be included in the final results if they did not hold their caucus by Feb. 11.

However, a review of the town-by-town results released Saturday by the Maine GOP suggests that some communities that had caucused prior to Feb. 11 were not counted. Nearly all Waldo County towns held caucuses on Feb. 4 but those towns were blank in the results released by the state party. Additionally, Waterville held its caucuses ahead of time but were not included in the results.

More…

Over the last few days I’ve read some tweets and seen some headlines speculating that the Maine GOP essentially rearranged the deck chairs so that Romney would “win.”  Given the info above, maybe they did.

Talk about

VOTER FRAUD.

Entry filed under: 2012 Election, Republicans, Including Wingers & "Moderates". Tags: maine gop, maine republican party, mitt romney.