The upset in Iowa in January was the first time in US election history that a
certified result was reversed, an embarrassment that now threatens to be
repeated in Maine.
On Friday, it also emerged that Maine’s caucus results were riddled by
counting mistakes, including some votes that were lost because the emails
reporting them ended up in a spam folder.
In an interview with Politico, Maine Republican Party chairman Charlie Webster
said: “There were clerical errors that did not significantly change the
numbers.”
He insisted that the mistakes would not have changed the results on the night
but said that a new set of numbers would be released.
He cited the updated figures for the city of Portland, where a 15-vote victory
for Mr Paul has been reversed into a win for Mr Romney by the same margin.
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