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The straw poll of Republican presidential candidates at the Values Voter Summit last weekend has resulted in controversy and a contested vote count.

Immediately after Tony Perkins announced the result of the FRC Action straw poll, in which Mitt Romney edged Mike Huckabee by 30 votes out of 5,775 cast, Huckabee boosters cried foul--and reporters peppered Perkins with questions about the legitimacy of the poll.

Turns out that Huckabee won a majority of the votes cast in person at the Values Voter Summit, 51 percent, and Romney only took 10 percent. Some unknown number of votes were cast online by people who also attended. But other votes were cast anytime online between August and Saturday. That's how Ron Paul showed up in third place with 865 votes even though he was picked by only 25 in-person voters.

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, apparently spoke with Mitt Romney at length over the weekend. Perkins later refused to tell reporters who he voted for.

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