Mitt Romney 11 3.57% 61 4.69%
Tom Tancredo 2 .65% 6 .46%
Fred Thompson 64 20.78% 266 20.46%
TOTALS: 308 100.00% 1,300 100.00%
(Please forgive the way the table e-mails.)
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The largest discrepency between our results and the official results was in Ron Paul's totals. Our poll showed him coming in 2nd after Duncan Hunter with 90 (out of 308) votes and 29.22% of the total; the "official" results showed him coming in 3rd with 217 (out of 1300) votes and 16.69% of the total.
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"Pen, Pencil, Pen, Pencil, Pen, Pencil..."
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As we hand-counted our results outside the main entrance of the Convention Center, (in full public view and being
videotaped by Gregory), a delegate/voter approached our table and said he was puzzled that pencils had been provided for use in the voting room. He told us he reached for a pencil, then thought better of it since he realized his vote could easily be erased and changed, then got a pen to mark his ballot instead.
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He said that a selection of each was lined up on a table like so: "pen, pencil, pen, pencil, pen, pencil". He commented that using erasable pencil for voting did not make sense to him. Another delegate/voter who came over to talk with us heard the first gentleman's comment and, with a look of dismay, realized that she, too, had selected a pencil--and had used it. She said, "I can't believe I was so stupid!"...In hindsight, it seemed peculiar to us that pencils were provided to voters at all since the Tarrant Party Republican Party Chair, Stephanie Klick, had told one of Ron Paul's supporters that permanent ink pens would be used for marking the ballots
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No public or media observors of the counting were allowed
