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Bev Harris
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 11552
Registered: 12-2004
Best of Black Box? 
Votes: 5 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 4:17 pm: | 
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Two super alert citizens, Frank Pearson and John Washburn, each hit me with spreadsheets about the same time, proving that Maine's caucus results don't even add up. As the precise John Washburn says, "their spreadsheet lacks internal integrity."
Because of the relatively open, public process, we've all been treated to a public display on lack of election integrity. I'm hearing whimpers of "bring in the voting machines" from news outlets like The AP, but we all need to remember that with the machines, the public can't see the counting process and wrong totals cannot be detected by the public.
You've probably already heard they decided to just not count Washington County, with 6,876 registered Republican voters, and that the "winning" result announced by the GOP for Romney was only 194 more than Ron Paul.
Registered voters in each Maine County by party as of Feb. 13, 2012: http://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/2012/21312r-e-active.txt
You've probably also heard that they reported "zero" for all the Waldo County locations that voted, even though the results were called in timely.
You've probably even heard that the state GOP ordered caucus locations to keep the count secret, but that Belfast took a vote to NOT hide the count and instead to announce it out loud, and that the actual Belfast votes were not at all what the state GOP reported for Belfast.
But you may not yet have heard that even for the counties they DID list votes for, their own numbers don't even add up!
FOR EXAMPLE:
In Penobscot County, City of Bangor, the GOP results which you can see here:
http://www.mainegop.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/me_gop_caucus_results.pdf
they have these numbers:
Mitt Romney: 26
Ron Paul: 36
Rick Santorum: 9
Newt Gingrich: 4
Other: 2
Total: 0
Add 'em up yourself. The total is 77.
In Penobscot County, town of Alton, they added 2 votes for Ron Paul and 1 vote for other (no other candidates show any votes), and came up with a total of zero.
In Cumberland County, town of Gorham, you be the teacher and the GOP can be your third grade student. The numbers are:
Romney 24
Paul 23
Santorum 8
Gingrich 4
Other 0
The state GOP added these up and came up with 56. I think all third grade teachers will agree that the total is not 56, but 59.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY, SOUTH PORTLAND:
Romney 29
Paul 28
Santorum 19
Gingrich 9
Other 0
The GOP adds these five number to achieve a sum of 81. Washburn and Pearson came up with 85, and so do the rest of us.
KENNEBEC COUNTY, CITY OF AUGUSTA:
Romney 18
Paul 17
Santorum 3
Ginrich 0
Other 0
The state GOP reports these 38 votes as "40".
KNOX COUNTY, TOWN OF CAMDEN:
Romney 19
Paul 6
Santorum 2
Gingrich 5
Other 0
The Maine Republican state math guru reports "28" as the total for what is actually 32.
KNOX COUNTY, TOWN OF FRIENDSHIP:
Romney 2
Paul 2
Santorum 3
Gingrich 1
Other 0
They get "7", I get "8", don't you?
PENOBSCOT COUNTY, TOWN OF DIXMONT:
Romney 1
Paul 0
Santorum 1
Gingrich 0
Other 1
According to the Maine Republican Party, 1+1+1=4
PENOBSCOT COUNTY, NEWPORT:
Romney 9
Paul 6
Santorum 6
Gingrich 1
Other 0
They report "21" when we can all see this adds to 22.
SOMERSET COUNTY, CAMBRIDGE:
Romney 0
Paul 0
Santorum 5
Gingrich 3
Other 1
Maine GOP math sums these nine votes up as "8"
YORK COUNTY TOWN OF ELIOT
Romney 20
Paul 12
Santorum 3
Gingrich 6
Other 2
They add this up to "44" but it is only 43.
All in all, the erroneous addition adds up to exactly the nice round number of 100 votes.
Given the fact that any spreadsheet has a nifty "sum" function, either the sum was correct and the numbers were fudged with after the fact, or they don't know how to calculate, and check, a simple row of five numbers.
But hey, why sweat the details? Even after all this, here's what's still on their official Web site:
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Bev Harris
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 11553
Registered: 12-2004
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 4:47 pm: |
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Seeing is believing. Here are scans of the Maine results from the official Republican Party site, linked in above article:
CUMBERLAND COUNTY
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Bev Harris
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 11554
Registered: 12-2004
Best of Black Box? 
Votes: 1 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 4:50 pm: |
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KENNEBUNK COUNTY
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Bev Harris
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 11555
Registered: 12-2004
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 4:51 pm: |
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KNOX COUNTY
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Bev Harris
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 11556
Registered: 12-2004
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 4:52 pm: |
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PENOBSCOT COUNTY
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Bev Harris
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 11558
Registered: 12-2004
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 4:54 pm: |
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SOMERSET COUNTY
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Bev Harris
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 11559
Registered: 12-2004
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 4:55 pm: |
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YORK COUNTY
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Bev Harris
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 11560
Registered: 12-2004
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 4:56 pm: |
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Here's another sum, as of yesterday:
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Troy Seman
Voting Rights Forum Participant
Username: Tseman
Post Number: 10
Registered: 6-2006
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 6:04 pm: |
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Bev, you're mean. Making fun off the mentally handicapped like this! You're probably against the social safety net that employed these disadvantaged Americans as well! *grin*
Seriously though... great work! |
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