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WhiskeyGrinder

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5. The body voted to accept that first ballot, warts and all.

Reply to lostincalifornia (Reply #4)

Thu Aug 21, 2025, 07:57 PM

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"A novel electronic voting system was deployed the day of the convention. It malfunctioned, leading to doubts over whether all votes were being recorded.

To be clear, this is an opinion piece from Will Stancil. It's not clear the voting system malfunctioned or whether user error was contributing to weird numbers.

Overriding the endorsement is overkill, a terrible look, and will hurt the party on statewide races next year.

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