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UPDATE JAN 9 9am PST: TOWN OF SUTTON CONFIRMS RON PAUL TOTALS WERE 31, NOT ZERO.

I just got off the phone with Jennifer Call, Town Clerk for Sutton. She confirmed that the Ron Paul totals in Sutton were actually 31, and said that they were “left off the tally sheet” and it was human error.

This is not an acceptable answer, especially because one of the most common forms of fraud in a hand count system is to alter or omit results on the reporting sheet. Hand count is lovely, transparent. They then fill out another reconciliation sheet, often in front of witnesses, and it looks fine. Then they provide a summary or media sheet with the incorrect results.

Bev Harris & Dr Hugh Thompson Talking to Lou Dobbs on CNN 10/31/2006 (6 mins)

(The point I am highlighting here is “blow-back”.)

GIBSON: Congressman Paul, let me ask you, do you agree with the Bush doctrine, or would you change it?

PAUL: Well, I certainly agreed with his foreign policy that he ran on and that we, as Republicans, won in year 2000. You know, the humble foreign policy, no nation building, don’t be the policeman of the world.

And we were strongly critical of the policy of the Clinton administration that did the opposite and we fell short. Of course, the excuse is that 9/11 changed everything.

But the Bush doctrine of preemptive war is not a minor change; this is huge. This is the first time we, as a nation, accept as our policy that we start the wars. I don’t understand this.

And that all options are on the table to go after Iran?

This is not necessary. These are Third World nations. They’re not capable.

But I think it’s the misunderstanding or the disagreements that we’ve had in this debate along the campaign trail is the nature of the threat.

PAUL: I’m as concerned about the nature of the threat of terrorism as anybody, if not more so. But they don’t attack us because we’re free and prosperous.

And there are radicals in all elements, in all religions that will resort to violence. But if we don’t understand that the reaction is, is because we invade their countries and occupy their countries, we have bases in their country — and we haven’t done it just since 9/11, but we have done that a long time.

I mean, it was the Air Force base in Saudi Arabia before 9/11 that was given as the excuse.

If we don’t understand that, we can’t win this war against terrorism.

“My point was, and continues to be, how long do we have to stay in Bosnia? How long do we have to stay in South Korea? How long are we going to stay in Japan? How long are we going to stay in Germany? All of those 50, 60 year periods. No one complains, in fact they contribute enormously their presence to stability in the world. The point is, it’s American casualties. We got to get Americans off the front line. Have the Iraqis, as part of the strategy, take over more and more of the responsibilities. And then I don’t think Americans are concerned if we are there 100 years, or a 1000 years, or 10,000 years. What they care about is the sacrifice of our most precious treasure, and that’s American blood.”