Thread: Ron Paul Iowa Campaign Sabotaged

RP Des Moine Campaign Hdqtrs -- Database Files were sabotaged

Dear all:

I sincerely regret to inform you that today, the GOTV day, the biggest day of the whole Iowa campaign for the 300 students up here, was completely destroyed--and the circumstances point towards a deliberate sabotage.

We were told from the very beginning that all of our hard work would be nought if we didn't hit Iowa hard on January 3rd.

Our job? Call every Ron Paul supporter in the state (our numbers were bigger than Huckabee's), man as many precincts as possible, drive voters around, pick people up, get them back home, check voters off as they come in, &c., &c..

We were told to be ready to leave camp at 9 a.m.
...

We were ready.

But then at 2:30 in the morning, all the camp leaders received a phone call that the database the Des Moines office put together of all our phone banking and door-to-door canvassing was totally scrambled, jumbled, and even partly deleted. All the data was scattered and completely jumbled. Missing phone numbers. Missing precincts. A big box of random data. Thousands and thousands of voters.

The original file was supposed to have broken all voters down into counties and precincts. Didn't happen.

Each page was supposed to be correlated with precinct captains and chairmen. Didn't happen.

We were looking at a day of turning out over 17,000 voters. We maybe called 300.

We picked up nobody.

We manned no caucuses.

...

So what happened?

We were told we'd have the numbers by 11 a.m.

Then noon.

Then 2.

Then 3.

Then 4.

We finally got the numbers around 4:30. We couldn't even print them. A couple camp leader floored it to a Kinko's and printed them out. We got started calling at 5:15. Caucusers were supposed to show up at 6:30.

I have received word that one particular person is responsible for all this.

I've also heard word that this is not true. That's why I won't release the name.

In any case, the database the Des Moines office was supposed to be compiling was completely compromised, either technically or personally. The word used to describe the master file was "unusable."

I don't know what to make of this, but everyone here is super despondent.

Who could've seen this coming? :whistling:

ELRON - VOXEO: The Israeli Defense Firm That Tallies the Iowa Caucus

The Iowa caucus results were tallied in 2004 by a company that is headed by a man whose company was bought by Elron Electronics, the Israeli defense firm. I suspect that it will be the same this year. Don't expect to see any grassroots political activists doing the tally in Iowa. The Israeli defense establishment takes care of that part of the American "democratic" election process.

Originally Posted by Defensor

RP Des Moine Campaign Hdqtrs -- Database Files were sabotaged

Who could've seen this coming? :whistling:

The Paulbots got their first taste of defeat and are starting to act like the liberals in 00 and 04.....cannot accept they got their ass handed to them so they want to try and claim someone cheated.opcorn:

Originally Posted by Pass the Bong

The Paulbots got their first taste of defeat and are starting to act like the liberals in 00 and 04.....cannot accept they got their ass handed to them so they want to try and claim someone cheated.opcorn:

I 'acted' like this in 00 and 04, and I'm no liberal. Fraud is fraud, regardless.

So they lost because their supporters forgot to show up because they weren't reminded?

Who saw this coming? Why, the Republicans who are afraid of Ron Paul making a difference in this country. The same Republicans who are for bigger government, more profit making off the backs of Middle America, more hidden taxes, less freedom for U.S. citizens. Those Republicans. The ones who want "business as usual."

Originally Posted by freckles

So they lost because their supporters forgot to show up because they weren't reminded?

LOL good excuse if any......

I was there
On January 4th, 2008 dante says:
and one of the students who waited for hours to get the lists...
It wasn't an issue of files being backed up... it was an issue of software that was supposed to match up addresses we wrote down while canvassing door to door with the person's name, phone number, and caucus location malfunctioning.
80 students stayed up all night on the 2nd and manually fixed most of this. At the end of the day the corrupt data really only amounted to 2-3k of the voters... many of whom we had listed as 25% chance of turning out if we were lucky.
EVERYONE on the identified and potential supporters lists was called often more than once to get turned out.
WHAT HURT US at the end of the day most was the large turnout... we got out about what we expected in terms of definite yes supporters for Ron Paul. The potentials that we didn't get out were democrats and independents- people who notoriously never vote in a republican caucus... come states like NH and MI et al where you have all day to come out and vote.

I went back and checked
On January 4th, 2008 SteveH says:
I'm a county chair and I received my GOTV list at 12:07 pm. I'm not saying there may not have been problems, but lists did get out to people to call.
Maybe there's another topic about this, but the problem in my county was turnout. The young and college-age r[evol]utionaires came out but the older voters sank us. People I talked to just days before who said they would come out suddenly didn't on caucus night, I offered them rides there and back, anything they needed short of physically breaking in to their houses and dragging them with me.
That said, we've had problems with "supporter" lists from day one. I got excited when I heard how many raw names we had but when I got my list yesterday, I had to spend half an hour stracthing off all the names of people I had already confirmed were not supporting Paul.

Originally Posted by Defensor

I 'acted' like this in 00 and 04, and I'm no liberal. Fraud is fraud, regardless.

I didnt say you were a liberal....I said the Paulbots are acting in the same manner as the liberals did in 00 and 04 when they lost......God knows I would call just anyone a liberal....wouldnt want to offend anyone.