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Carson
12-29-2011, 11:16 PM
I just saw this on fark.


In order to prevent a Ron Paul victory at the Iowa caucuses, the GOP have moved the vote-counting to an undisclosed location


Actual story:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2011/12/iowa-gop-moving-votecount-to-undisclosed-location-108812.html



Fark comments:

http://www.fark.com/comments/6851266/In-order-to-prevent-a-Ron-Paul-victory-at-Iowa-caucuses-GOP-have-moved-vote-counting-to-an-undisclosed-location



Fark comments like:

So a party that has spent the last four years recruiting the "Obama is taking away our freedoms" is about to appear to take away the Freedom of free and fair elections? This means if Paul loses Iowa his people will demand he runs a third party, thus sinking the GOP nominee.


Also some pretty trippy comments in the article comment section.

RileyE104
12-29-2011, 11:35 PM
Well, the "official" reason is because of the bad-apples in the OWS crowd who plan to disrupt the process.

Carson
12-30-2011, 02:48 AM
Well, the "official" reason is because of the bad-apples in the OWS crowd who plan to disrupt the process.

That reminds me of another Fark story from earlier today.

Sorry, the bank is closed due to 'communications problems' with the corporate office, and by 'communications problems' we mean we can't hear anything because someone blasted a hole in the wall and cleaned out the safe
(http://www.fark.com/comments/6848067/Sorry-bank-is-closed-due-to-communications-problems-with-corporate-office-by-communications-problems-we-mean-we-cant-hear-anything-because-someone-blasted-a-hole-in-wall-cleaned-out-safe)