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Volunteers count caucus ballots for the second consecutive day at Clark County GOP headquarters in Las Vegas on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012.
By Anjeanette Damon (contact) 
Published Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012 | 10:15 a.m.
Updated Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012 | 10:48 a.m.
Michael McDonald, who is running to be chairman of the Nevada GOP, gestures and talks with lawyers and representatives for Ron Paul outside the Clark County GOP headquarters in Las Vegas, where party officials were having intense discussions with the presidential campaigns about the still-unreleased results of the Nevada caucuses Sunday morning.
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The voting ended half a day ago. The networks have called the race. The GOP presidential candidates have delivered their speeches and left the state.
And, still, party officials in Nevada’s largest county continue to count the vote.
“We are going to get this right,” Clark County Chairman David Gibbs told the Las Vegas Sun today. “If it takes us a little bit of time to get it rights, we are going to take the time.”
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was declared the victor of the Nevada caucuses Saturday evening, based on results from the rest of the state and entrance polls conducted by major media organizations.
With 70 percent of the vote counted, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was in second place, with U.S. Rep. Ron Paul trailing in third by just shy of 1,000 votes.
After working until 4 a.m. Sunday, a handful of a volunteers resumed working through boxes of paper ballots this morning, verifying the vote count done at each precinct nearly 24 hours ago.
County party officials were unwilling to release the numbers from the precinct counts until each ballot was certified. And they are doing it all by hand.
“We want to make sure the count at the precinct was accurate,” Gibbs said.
With just half of the vote counted, officials have already discovered some discrepancies. In some precincts, the number of ballots did not match the number of voters who signed in to participate in the caucus.
Gibbs said the ballots in those precincts are being set aside so officials can decide how to deal with the problem. He declined to estimate how many votes were in question.
State party secretary Jim DeGraffenreid said they are still determining "the facts" and then will decide how to proceed, but acknowledged the ballots from those precincts may be dumped from the results.
"That is a possibility," he said.
The mismatched prompted U.S. Rep. Ron Paul’s campaign to complain about a “lack of process and poorly run locations.”
A lawyer for Romney’s campaign is watching the count and observers from other campaigns have been invited.
Not having a plan to secure this election is a travesty and begs the assumption of corruption among the people. How can we forgive a lack of integrity in our most sacred liberty. There are no possible excuses for this. How hard is it to count and secure 40,000 votes? There is no desire to respect our election it is most obviously just for show for the ignorant masses.
Vive la Revolution, these party bosses will not be forgotten
It's clear the GOP did a particularly poor job at managing their caucus this year, as did the Democrats in 2008.
It's time Nevada moves into the modern age, with a primary system with early voting, allowing all voters who wish to participate the opportunity to do so.
Caucuses run by the parties are disorganized disasters. They can't get the time right, counting right, they don't allow for early voting or absentee ballots by our troops who are overseas.
This sham of a process needs to be fixed. It's approaching a violation of the voting rights act.
Caucuses are as laughable.
Well, the caucuses are for the purpose of selecting precinct delegates who will select other delegates who will select other delegates yet who will vote in the nominating convention. The voting that counts is the voting for delegates IF there are more would-be delegates than slots to fill. That is rarely the case.
The votes cast Saturday for presidential candidates are nothing but a non-binding straw poll, important for creating a sense of momentum but not relevant in any way to the actual nominating process at the RNC Nominating Convention.
The Nevada GOP should have a complete public-filmed-recount of all counties including Washoe where the numbers have changed dramatically.
Voter Fraud is all the buzz. Shame on you all.
And these are the people that think they can run the country?
Sigh. Seems like every time our state GOP is in the national news lately we look bad. Who's running the show? I don't know who our state chair is - but he or she should be booted.
Let me guess. It's all ACORN's fault, right?
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