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It Gets Worse in Maine

February 17, 2012 · 1:53 pm ET · Leave a Comment

Maine Republican Party chairman Charlie Webster “has admitted that the state party made numerous clerical errors in counting the state’s caucus results — even omitting some votes because emails reporting tallies ‘went to spam’ in an email account,” Politico reports.

Webster insisted that the errors did not change the outcome, but the Portland Press Herald reports “he won’t release the new totals until he talks to both the Romney and Paul campaigns.”

Rick Hasen: “Amateur hour is over. The choice of a president is simply too important to put in the hands of party bumblers and the small percentage of people who are willing to spend hours to cast a vote.”

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