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Maine GOP leader's prediction one day before: "It'll come down to 200 votes"

Submitted by jdcash on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 13:28

Ron Paul 2012

Maine GOP chairman, Charlie Webster, predicted and told reporters on Friday this:

"What will happen is that either Paul or Romney will win by 200 votes, in my opinion, one way or the other," Webster said Friday, although he said he did not know the tally from the caucuses that have been held statewide.

http://www.pressherald.com/news/maine-gop-leader-winner-gets...

Hundreds swapping

Submitted by Dar on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 14:04. Permalink

I find the number 200 to be interesting.

This is the number one might get with hundreds swapping in transcribing vote counts. If Paul gets 210 and Romney 140, then a hundreds swap would attribute 110 to Paul and 240 to Romney, a fraud of 200 votes. Several of those can be accumulated as needed. If you want at least a hundred votes Romney over Paul, then you will average about 200 votes over. (This example also applies to the handwritten method at the end.)

There are other approaches to fraud that would also create multiples of a hundred but would risk someone observing the total does not match the number of attendees at a precinct.

Adding a 1 before a 2-digit total or dropping a 1 from a count 120 to 199. For example, Watch the Vote reports Paul 25 and Romney 10 in Penobscot county. Suppose that is the real count. A transcription error can change that to Paul 25 and Romney 110. This is better done in caucuses with large numbers and with some confusion.

Also, for handwritten tallies, one can choose to interpret ones as twos and the other way around for the hundreds place.

If a party boss says it is impossible for Paul to get 90 and Romney 10, then a worker can be convinced to add a 1 to the Romney total. He is just correcting an error made earlier.

I'm not claiming that any of this happened. I'm just saying that the number 200 reminds me of these methods.

Hmm

Submitted by Obomba on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 13:40. Permalink

Now that...is interesting.

Also, lol @ this comment
"Now Maine has the Maine version of Romney, Obama oatmeal candidate which I am sure will be cobbled up during the election campaign. They are too much alike. Ron Paul is a kook with the foreign policy statements. If Maine buys into either of them, then the caucus process is a joke and no one here really wants much change at all. Be honest people and recognize how much trouble this nation is in both morally and economically. Both are equally as important. We are off course as a free nation so please vote in a real conservative and lets win back our country"

Translation: "wars are moral and have zero to do with the economy and spending trillions on them is totally fiscally conservative. If my candidate of choice doesn't win then voting doesn't matter."

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