As it turns out the caucus results reported on Saturday night by Washington State Republican Party Chairman Luke Esser were based on numbers the State Party must have known were inaccurate, as well as being incomplete.
Snohomish County a large county (pop. 686,300) that includes some of Seattle's northern suburbs, took a short cut and reported the tallies from the Caucus sign in sheets, NOT the tally of delegates elected at the end of the caucus process.
Snohomish County GOP caucus results being questioned
KING 5 News has determined that there are inconsistencies in the "votes" being counted and reported by the Washington State Republican party.
Throughout the vote reporting process, State Party Chairman Luke Esser has said the party is reporting the presidential preferences of the delegates who were elected at the caucuses. But today we learned that Snohomish County, the third-largest county in the state, reported the preferences of all caucus attendees instead of the elected delegates.
One Snohomish County caucus chairman told KING 5 that the delegate preferences are "dramatically different" than the attendee counts.
The Snohomish County Republican Party does not have the delegate preferences from many of its caucuses and is working to obtain them.
By way of comparison, Pierce County Republicans posted both totals on their Web site. In Pierce Co., Mike Huckabee was preferred by more overall attendees, with 609 caucus goers saying they supported Huckabee, compared with 571 who preferred John McCain. But McCain won more delegates - 192 to 186. The latter number is the one being reported to the state.
The results of the Snohomish County delegate tallies won't be available for days.
No wonder Huckabee is pissed off. There's IS a chance that Huckabee won the Washington caucus. Only a 1.6% margin separates McCain and Huckabee using Party Chair Luke Esser's bogus numbers.
I guess Washington's G.O.P. can't even be trusted to tell us the truth when they are reporting the results from their own caucus.