Maine GOP: Results went to spam
Maine Republican Party chairman Charlie Webster has admitted that the state party made numerous clerical errors in counting the state’s caucus results — even omitting some votes because emails reporting tallies “went to spam” in an email account.
However, Webster insisted that the errors did not change the outcome.
On Saturday, he had declared former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney the winner of Maine’s Presidential Preference Poll by fewer than 200 votes, even though not all municipalities had reported results.
“There were clerical errors that did not significantly change the numbers. There were several smaller towns that were left out, the reporting was wrong. … We’ve corrected those clerical errors and will send those numbers out [soon],” said Webster in an interview with POLITICO.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/73015.html#ixzz1mfeSw6PB
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Talk about yer freak shows!
Those Downeaster Yankee's do not like having those Augusta politicians telling 'em how to vote. They just might have to give Paul a huge win, just to teach 'em a lesson.
backatcha
so true
one ironic layer at a time 
The Maine GOP last night issued revised results - showing a slightly increased Mitt lead. Unfortunately they have banned all comments on their website!
http://www.mainegop.com/category/latest-news/
Its very interesting that despite there being around 300 caucuses listed Mitts' entire lead is due to just 5 of them - Kennebunkport, Brunswick, Cape Elizabeth, Falmouth and Cumberland where he won by huge margins (often getting 3 or 4 times' Paul's votes). These are of course amongst the largest caucus sites. Waterville - despite having 15,000 residents and lots of students only records 29 votes in total despite those attending reporting huge numbers.
But as there seems to be no audit trails and hardly any votes were publicly announced at the sites its difficult to know what actually happened in Maine last week.
Of course its all possible Washington may overturn this when it caucuses in 4 hours time.
of a democratic society - that there will be freely held, accountable, and fair systems of voting.
Each one of these stories, from Bush v. Gore on down to today's headlines, deals a blow to the body politic's trust and increases voter apathy. It also detaches, one event at a time, the very meaning of what is an objective truth in terms of a simple sum of numbers.
My email regularly puts my email from my Congressman Lloyd Doggett into my inbox without a problem.
Occasionally I get one from Kay Bailey Hutchinson without a problem.
Whenever I get one from John Cornyn, it's flagged "SeaMonkey thinks this is SPAM"
