Do you mean "lose"?
No, he didn't lose to Obama. Keyes is a Republican and Obama is a Democrat. They were not running against each other, only against other members of their own party. And took place in Iowa, not Illinois.
Check this out!
Obama defeated Keyes for the 2004 Senate seat in Illinois. Obama 70% and Keyes 27%.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Illinois,_2004
Keyes previously lost an attempt to be elected Senator in Maryland.
I think careful readers of the article will agree that nobody has refused to report his vote count. They said it would require hand counting every ballot. They did not say it wouldn’t be done, so we in turn don’t know if it will, or not.
It would not impact the results of the caucus, to determine if he had 1 or 10 or 100 votes.
Maybe they will hand count the votes, if Keyes demands a recount, based on one of several possible guises.
If I remember correctly, there was an opening for a Senator (Federal) in Illinois because an incumbent died in office. The Dems ran Obama and the only person the Repubc could get was Keyes - an out-of-state candidate. Obama beat Keyes handily.
Check it out. I’m sure it happened.