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Republicans to count ballots ignored as convention ended
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Updated: Apr. 10, 2012 | 9:45 a.m.
RENO -- Eighteen months later, missing delegate ballots from a recessed Nevada state GOP convention will be counted.
National Committeewoman Heidi Smith said today's count was requested by Republicans who supported the presidential campaign of Ron Paul.
Smith said the count will have no real effect, but she hopes it brings closure to Paul supporters. Paul supporters still feel party leaders cheated them out of a place at the national convention when they abruptly recessed the April 2008 convention in Reno.
Ballots for three national convention delegates from the state's 2nd Congressional District were never counted.
The 2008 convention was recessed after Paul supporters won a rule change that allowed them to vote Paul delegates to the convention.
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'Bout time! Never trust a Republicrat.
1) Are there any RP ex-delegates present to monitor the "counting"?
2) What took them so long?
3)In the event of serious discrepacies, will McCain's Party hacks publicly apologize to Ron Paul?
4) What steps, if any, will the State and National GOP take to assure prompt and accurate counting of ALL ballots in the future?
To ask these questions is to answer them!
PEACE AND FREEDOM!!
David K. Meller