Saturday, December 1, 2007

Romney supporters cheat at Florida straw poll

After the CNN/Youtube debate, Florida held a straw poll. Hundreds of Ron Paul supporters came in on buses and the like (paid for by supporters, not by the campaign) to vote in the poll, and "dominated the crowd of 1000 or more guests" at the event.

In the video posted on here from Youtube, and the other 2 youtube videos that you can search, we see Romney supporters cheating by voting multiple times.



In another video, a woman who voiced her complaint with the Pinellas County GOP chairman and straw poll organizer Tony DiMatteo claimed that he threatened to harm her.

"Tony's exact words on the phone to me was, 'If you make a big deal out of this, you will get hurt,'" Sofie Lefebvre said in the video. "And I was shocked. At that point, I realized that there was a lot more corruption going on than we even realized before."

In the end, Romney won the straw poll with 893 votes, with Paul in second with 534. The closest third place contender was Giuliani with a paltry 39 votes, but at least his supporters only voted once!

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