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March 26, 2008

Why do the delegate numbers keep going up?

Something is starting to smell fishy. On Monday the 17th the Chattanoogan reported that some 225 delegates were chosen to elect the Hamilton County Republican party candidate for sheriff.

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Connie Weathers, party chairman, said as many as 400 people attended.

She said some 225 delegates were chosen and there were also alternates selected.

Mrs. Weathers said party officials will now certify those workers after checking to make sure they meet the criteria, including being voters in their precincts.

On March 24th the Chattanoogan reported that there are now 300 delegates.

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Last week, the party elected over 300 delegates whose job will be to vote on Thursday night for the Republican nominee to run for sheriff. Delegates turned out in large numbers to hear from the candidates.

I heard today that we are now at the full 480 delegates for the sheriff's race. I did try to call the Hamilton County Republican party several times today to verify the numbers, but no one is picking up the phone. My only question is, if we picked 225 delegates on the 17th, then where did the extra 255 delegates come from?

Update:It looks like there is actually 426 delegates. That number does include alternates, which means for the 426 to be legit there would have had to been 200 alternates delegates elected on the 17th. I was there and I can tell you it is not likely.

hat-tip: Jeremiah M.

Posted by gid at March 26, 2008 11:41 PM
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Interesting that more people were selected as delegates (taking today's count of 480) than were actually in attendance. Are we to believe that all 400 people in attendance were selected as delegates, and then another 80 people who weren't in attendance were selected also?

Nothing to see here, move on along ...

Posted by: Jeremy Clifton at March 26, 2008 04:55 PM
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