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Old 10-11-2011, 02:00 PM   #5
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CBS News 10/8/11
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Rep. Ron Paul scored a decisive victory Saturday in a mock presidential election
at the Values Voter Summit, trouncing fellow Texan, Gov. Rick Perry,
but an organizer of the straw poll suggested ballot-stuffing may have skewed the results.

In a press conference following the announcement of the straw poll results
at the annual Washington gathering of social conservatives,
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins all but dismissed the results as irrelevant,
citing 600 people who registered Saturday morning and, he said, "left after Ron Paul spoke."
A total of 1,983 ballots were cast. "You do the math," Perkins said.
And besides all that:
Perkins said his organization did "everything to preserve the integrity of this straw poll,"
including denying campaigns from buying blocks of tickets,


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