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    Rand Paul delegates elected in US Virgin Islands?!

    https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/708152521295073281

    So tonight a Rand Paul operative from MI got himself and a slate of uncommitted delegates elected from the Virgin Islands. How 2016 is that?
    -- Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) March 11, 2016

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    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/virg...can-convention

    When a political consultant from Michigan who has written a book about contested political conventions pops up in the Virgin Islands making a bid to become a delegate to the Republican convention -- along with his wife and two of their pals -- well, it gets your attention.

    John Yob, the owner of Michigan-based consulting firm Strategic National and the former national political director for one-time Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), was on the ballot Thursday in the GOP caucus to be a delegate to the 2016 Republican convention from the U.S. Virgin Islands.

    Yob, who gained campaign experience working for Paul, John McCain and Rick Santorum, made headlines last September after he was allegedly punched at a Michigan bar by a Marco Rubio staffer.

    But, in his peculiar quest to become a Virgin Islands delegate to the Republican convention, Yob and three others hit a roadblock, which has led to a bizarre and messy fight against the supervisor of the U.S. Virgin Island's Election Board.

    On March 4, Caroline Fawkes, the supervisor of elections for the U.S. Virgin Islands ruled Yob, his wife Erica L. Yob, and Ethan Eilon and Lindsey Eilon ineligible to vote. All four of them were on the ballot to be delegates, but delegates must be registered Republican voters. Fawkes' ruling compromised their eligibility to serve as delegates.

    According to court documents, Yob was initially ruled ineligible to vote, according to Fawkes, after he tried to register to vote before he had lived in the U.S. Virgin Islands for the required 90 days. According to an email that Fawkes sent to state chairman for the Virgin Islands Republican Party, John Canegata, Yob is alleged to have purposely falsified information to gain access to the polls.

    "Mr. Yob appeared at the St. John Elections Office in order to register to vote in early January. He was informed by the Elections Assistant, he has to reside in the Virgin Islands for ninety days before he can register. He informed the Elections Assistant, he arrived on the island a week before, which made him ineligible. He then took the information gained and travelled to the St. Thomas Elections offices and provided a falsified date within the parameters to meet the requirement," Fawkes wrote in an email to the party chairman.

    Fawkes also said in the email that her office had attained "a copy of Mr. Yob's Facebook page, which states they moved to St. John USVI on December 28, 2015."

    Today, at 10:22 a.m. on the day of caucus, Judge Kathleen Mackay of the Supreme Court of the U.S. Virgin Islands issued a restraining order that allows Yob and the others to vote. While it is not a final ruling on their eligibility to vote, it allows them to move forward.That is important as it gives Yob and others the chance to actually become a delegate to the convention.
    Last edited by RonPaulGeorge&Ringo; 03-10-2016 at 11:07 PM.



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