belfast says is what happened? no, the numbers did not say that. here what is they showed. zero! as in zero votes cast for anybody. it s not like that is what they showed that night at the caucuses, erroneously but resolved since, now they have the real tally, this is what it says according to the state republican party. it s not just belfast. 17 of the 18 towns that caucused together in waldo county turned up blank on the official maine republican party tall list. state republican party has no explanation why that is other than to say it was maybe a clerical error, that they have not corrected. we contacted the maine republican party again today to find out why almost an entire county had their votes erased with no explanation why. we heard nothing back from maine republicans. washington county up in the northeast part of the state says they notified the state republican party they were going to hold their caucuses a week late because of an expected snow storm, they say they were told
we re left to wonder how long they will wait before they sort this out. joining us now is bill nemitz, a columnist, following maine state politics more than 30 years. mr. nemitz, thank you for your type, happy to have you here. nice to be here, rachel. can you share your latest reporting in terms of what is going on in waldo and washington counties and other places that haven t had their votes totaled? the waldo county republicans voted to ask the state committee to formally censure the state republican chairman, charlie webster, they wanted him fire, they are going to the committee on march 10th and ask he be censured. in washington county they are going ahead and they will have their caucuses on saturday, and whether the republican party formally counts them or not, they are resting assured those of us in this business will count. the argument they don t matter is based on their turnout from 2008, in which ron paul didn t do that well, actually. i think what they are failing to
maine republican party can have concluded that mitt romney won there. the results there are not complete yet. the margin of victory for mitt romney is slim. when you have incomplete results and a slim margin, that means you re not supposed to call it until you know all the results. ask iowa. here is a microcosm of the problem. this happened in waldo, county, maine. here is great state of maine, here is waldo county, maine. in waldo there is a town called belfast, as in northern ireland, belfast, maine. local newspaper talked to the guy who ran the republican caucus in the town of belfast. he told them he personally called in the town of belfast s caucus results to the state republican party.