Posted on 01/04/2008 8:29:29 PM PST by TBP
The Iowa Republican Party has neither counted nor reported the number of votes for Alan Keyes in the GOP caucuses held Jan. 3.
"We didn't have the electronic means to record the tallies for Keyes, so we can't yet report to the public how many votes Keyes got," said John Lund at the Iowa GOP headquarters in Des Moines. "We can't report the Keyes votes until we've double-checked each individual paper ballot."
Meanwhile, the Iowa GOP widely reported the vote tallies of all other candidates, including Tom Tancredo, who got 5 votes despite having quit the race.
"I personally traveled with Alan Keyes across Iowa, and we met scores of Keyes voters. It's totally unfair these citizens' votes are now being withheld from the public," said Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt. "This is tantamount to election fraud."
"I voted for Alan Keyes," said Siena Hoefling of Calhoun County. "It's ridiculous they didn't report my vote. Each precinct could have easily called or emailed the vote tallies to headquarters, so they should have been counted by now."
"County election officials showed me a ballot list of 'suggested' candidates, but Alan Keyes' name wasn't on the list," said Hoefling. "When I asked them if they would include Alan's name, they said they'd have to write it in."
One election official apologized to Hoefling that Keyes' name was omitted, saying "these are just the names we were given by [Iowa GOP] headquarters."
Duaine Bollwitt of Monticello said, "Alan Keyes was not on the list of Republican Presidential candidates. My vote for Alan Keyes was treated as a write-in. I thought that was odd, but what do I know."
"A presidential preference poll reporting procedure was given to me, explaining how to report the votes to headquarters," said Michael Walsh, a precinct permanent secretary for Windsor Heights. "When we called in the vote tallies by telephone, an electronic voice asked for the number of votes, candidate-by-candidate."
Whether the electronic voice prompt collecting the votes offered Alan Keyes as a choice is unclear.
Tom Youngwirth, recorder for his Windsor Heights precinct, said, "Now that I think of it, I didn't hear Alan Keyes' name on the voice prompt. But John McCain's name was on the voice prompt."
"I know for sure we reported votes for Alan Keyes to headquarters," said Ron Granzow, precinct chair for Windsor Heights. "I don't know why they wouldn't report his votes to the public."
"This resembles a 'communist-style' approach to electoral politics," said Stephen Stone, chairman of Alan Keyes for President. "In the former Soviet Union, political officials limited voters' choices in a way that created merely the illusion of democracy, without the reality. Any undue interference with free and open elections, of the sort we think we just witnessed, is un-American."
Added Stone, "Alan Keyes has been an announced candidate for president since Sept. 14. Yet the state GOP chose to exclude him from the caucus process, claiming he 'announced too late' to be included, so that his name was not even mentioned on official lists of candidates or in reporting instructions. This disenfranchises Iowa voters."
From what I gather
Not really. Although, he has a pretty good act. All that constitutional mumbo-jumbo and then reparations, etc. He’s Sharpton without the criminal record.
Didn’t he loose to Obama?
The people who support him and voted for him. What the hell makes you so much more important than them?
I don’t know what Dimmycrap board you came here from, but that is a smear. Keyes has always stood foursquare for Constitutional principles. He has written and spoken on these ideas for many years. His runs for president, his radio and TV programs, and other things that he does have raised his profile so that more people are introduced to his ideas.
Sharpton is just a thug and a con man who makes a living sowing racial discord and shaking down white businesses. An entirely different breed of cat.
He aint on it. Tancredo is
WQhen has he ever called for reparations? Or are you just shooting hot air out of your liberal butt?
This isn’t just about Keyes...this is about votes being reported. I guess when you vote and your vote isn’t reported we can take the same attitude as you have toward Keyes. Guess if you complain you’ll simply be a jerk.
Alan Keyes is a declared candidate for the Republican nomination. Tom Tancredo no longer is. (Too bad — Tancredo is a great Congressman.) That’s the relevant issue.
Apparently, the state GOP gave the election officials the list. They deliberately chose to forget Keyes.
Yes you do. At most caucus locations last night, voters were handed blank pieces of paper to write their vote on.
Apparently, it's OK with some of these country-club Republicans if fellow Republicans -- fellow Amreicans -- get disenfranchised. (Of course, they won't like it so much when Hitlery tries to do it to them, but they need to remember Pastor Martin Niemoller.)
Apparently, it's OK with some of these country-club Republicans if fellow Republicans -- fellow Americans -- get disenfranchised. (Of course, they won't like it so much when Hitlery tries to do it to them, but they need to remember Pastor Martin Niemoller.)
I can only tell ya what it says at the official website.
It appears there was some kind of error.
Keyes claiming he was left out on purpose is just raising dust.
When and where?
I’m from THIS board.
Oh, were you under the impression that this is DUh?
Do your own research. I don’t have the time for you.
When and where?
I’m from THIS board.
Oh, were you under the impression that this is DUh?
Didnt Keyes realize he wasn’t on the ballot?
Seems he should have piped up sooner.
Perhaps Obama would forgo the chance to name Hillary as his Vice President and select Alan Keyes instead. It may be his big chance.....
The Dallas Morning Snooze described it quite different, typical for that rag
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