Secret ballots are supposed to let you vote without being held accountable by anyone for voting against your boss/friend/whatever, however the problem with secret ballots is that the results can be cooked.

According to Jim Conduit, he believes that vote fraud occurred in the Iowa Straw poll and he is asking for the people who voted for Ron Paul to sign affidavits to  show that more people voted for Ron Paul than the Iowa GOP gave him votes for.

Now many people point out the Jim Conduit is not affiliated with Ron Paul, and in fact that Jim Conduit cares more about fair elections than getting Ron Paul elected, so we shouldn’t get too hung up on Jim Conduit’s issues, and I think that is correct, to a point.

Obviously if the people who voted for Ron Paul want to sign affidavits, that’s fine, and I think that’s a good idea, but the Iowa straw poll doesn’t count for that much, and I think that better energy would be spent moving forward, and focusing on building momentum, not crying about a non-binding straw poll that has been historically questionably administered, and was, according to the judge in Iowa, a private event in any case.

Even though disInter has a nice breakdown of the exit polls and their correlations with the actual results, which are very close for everyone but Romney, Paul and Brownback, I think that it’s more important to focus on where we can go from here, not what is done at some private event that is more a starting point than anything.

That said, Ron Paul supporters need to work HARDER than ever to get out their message, because things are going to get challenging  as the pundits feel their power slipping away, they will villify, slander and otherwise attempt to destroy Ron Paul, because if Ron Paul wins, the war racket gravy train that has been paying them is going to slow down.

And it’s not easy to get a real job after you’ve been a war shill for years.

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