Originally Posted by Wolfgang Bohringer Originally Posted by

Let me address the issue that you bring up about the transparency at the caucuses first. I could be wrong, but at the Feb 4 caucus, I don't think there are any first hand reports by RP supporters of not having full transparency and oversight of the chain of custody of the ballots in any precinct or consolidation site in the state. The story about the private gate may be an exception, but I recall being very confused the little time that I tried to make heads or tails of that story. I thought it involved access to the site not auditing the ballots?



The great thing about the caucus system is that any schmuck can walk into any counting room and audit the count at any level. The big problem is too few smucks like myself willing to stick around and spend HOURS doing it.



And then there's my pet peeve about the overabundance of people willing to spend HOURS crying "fraud" when they have no first hand evidence from us schmucks who were out here looking but not able to document any fraud. All that this gets us is more states abolishing the caucus system altogether and shoving the machines down our throats--which are completely unauditable no matter how many schmucks like myself are foolish enough to sit in the counting rooms.



Now, to your question about the counting of last nights ballots. These were very complicated ballots. There were 8 different commission district lists--each with its own list of candidates--and it was clear to all those RP schmucks willing to audit the results (of which I was not one) that they'd rather do it today rather than be there all night tallying those 1030 ballots.



There were several questions from the floor about how the chain of custody would be executed and audited and all of our counters willing to skip work today to audit the votes were satisfied.



I believe the quantity of paranoia can never high enough and as Ron Paul would say "believe me" there was a sufficient amount at the meeting last night.