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Iowa was sabotaged?

Submitted by JamesM76 on Sat, 01/05/2008 - 04:24
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Source: http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/01/04/ex-lp-director-to-blam...

Dear all:
I sincerely regret to inform you that today, the [Get Out The Vote] day, the biggest day
of the whole Iowa campaign for the 300 students up here, was completely
destroyed—and the circumstances point towards a deliberate sabotage.
We were told from the very beginning that all of our hard work would be
nought if we didn’t hit Iowa hard on January 3rd.
Our job? Call every Ron Paul supporter in the state (our numbers were bigger
than Huckabee’s), man as many precincts as possible, drive voters around,
pick people up, get them back home, check voters off as they come in, &c.,
&c..
We were told to be ready to leave camp at 9 a.m.
...
We were ready.
But then at 2:30 in the morning, all the camp leaders received a phone call
that the database the Des Moines office put together of all our phone
banking and door-to-door canvassing was totally scrambled, jumbled, and even
partly deleted. All the data was scattered and completely jumbled. Missing
phone numbers. Missing precincts. A big box of random data. Thousands and
thousands of voters.
The original file was supposed to have broken all voters down into counties
and precincts. Didn’t happen.
Each page was supposed to be correlated with precinct captains and chairmen.
Didn’t happen.
We were looking at a day of turning out over 17,000 voters. We maybe called
300.
We picked up nobody.
We manned no caucuses.

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Submitted by moppili on Sat, 01/05/2008 - 04:33.

this is absolutely outrageous! what happened there?
this mustn't happen again people!

dr paul for president

already posted

Submitted by Ron Paul Films on Sat, 01/05/2008 - 04:30.

there is already a huge thread on this.

I looked for the blasted

Submitted by JamesM76 on Sat, 01/05/2008 - 04:37.

I looked for the blasted thing and I can't find it. Have a direct link?

from the original post

Submitted by Ron Paul Films on Sat, 01/05/2008 - 04:49.

make sure you read the "i was there" comment. doesn't sound like sabotage to me:
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I was there
On January 4th, 2008 dante says:
and one of the students who waited for hours to get the lists...
It wasn't an issue of files being backed up... it was an issue of software that was supposed to match up addresses we wrote down while canvassing door to door with the person's name, phone number, and caucus location malfunctioning.
80 students stayed up all night on the 2nd and manually fixed most of this. At the end of the day the corrupt data really only amounted to 2-3k of the voters... many of whom we had listed as 25% chance of turning out if we were lucky.
EVERYONE on the identified and potential supporters lists was called often more than once to get turned out.
WHAT HURT US at the end of the day most was the large turnout... we got out about what we expected in terms of definite yes supporters for Ron Paul. The potentials that we didn't get out were democrats and independents- people who notoriously never vote in a republican caucus... come states like NH and MI et al where you have all day to come out and vote.