GOP e-mails: "1:01: Re-vote!!!! More ballots than Members!!!!!!!!!!!"

[Rose Siding]

Hilarious. This regards the repub caucus vote for leadership position,

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More than a half-dozen staffers and lobbyists shared e-mails with The Hill that were sent and received that day on the condition that the senders and the receivers remain anonymous. The messages include the time they were sent and the content.
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1:01: Holy S**T more ballots cast than were members. Re-voting now.

1:01: Re-vote!!!! More ballots than Members!!!!!!!!!!!

1:13: They are now saying it may have been a clerical error. No word on whether the first ballot is voided. We are in for a wild one.

1:14: Pryce now saying there was a clerical error. Just said now trying to figure which ballots to use.

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) tells reporters that the vote of Resident Commissioner Luis Fortuño was not counted.

1:17: Pryce using a floor-voting list that did not have Luis Fortuno on it, which may be the problem. No word yet on which ballots they are using.

1:18 PM: Chairman Pryce has ruled first ballot valid, and members seem to agree.

1:19: Now entertaining parliamentary questions.

1:20: It was just announced that no one voted twice.

http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/020706/news2.html

http://www.tuaw.com.nyud.net:8090/images/2005/08/abacus.gif

[Sparkman]

1. The abacus is better for tallying than stupid politicians with computers?

We can't get an accurate vote count in the U.S.A., but we are qualified to tell the world how "freedom is on the march", and it's "not about OIL". are we sunk or just sinking?

[MADem]

2. When you read all those exchanges, you can see how out of touch these

aides and staffers are. They're drowning in Kool-Aid!

I thought that whole business was hysterical with the ballots--and they reported it, as it was happening, on MSNBC...without a trace of irony, ironically!