1) My Meetup Group coordinator said a voter went to his polling place and was told that Ron Paul had pulled out of the race by a voting official. Not true! The voting official was reprimanded at the county level (good), but just be aware.
Help me out here Donna. What you describe seems too simple. A voting official was found spreading a lie with direct impact on a primary candidate to the highest office in the free world. Based on the limited information to go on, one can only conclude this was an intentional lie and not an honest mistake. Better yet, just for grins and giggles, assume that this somehow happened as a result of an honest mistake. How does an election official make the honest mistake of telling voters that a candidate who has not pulled out of the race has pulled out of the race? Just trying to give benefit of the doubt. This voting official was probably just a lacky following orders from somewhere up the chain. As far as you are aware, other than this slap on the wrist (reprimand at county level), is that it? Is that the extent of recourse protecting the primary election system in one of the largest states of the world's only super power? That is kind of mind boggling to fathom. If it really is this easy to inject fraud into the mechanics of the election system, what next? It seems prudent that somebody with their heads screwed on tight with an interest in conducting a legit election should be pursuing an investigation into how and or by whom this lie was hatched. At the very least, does this not seem like something that should interest the ever nosey folks at HSA to be investigating as if there was no tomorrow...... I mean, assuming that it was not someone in that loop who helped hatch this plan in the first place? Good grief, Lucy pulls the football out from under neath Charlie Brown once again, and HSA zebras are nowhere to be found.
Keep us posted. Thanks!